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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”). Doublet of lavātus and lōtus.
Pronunciation
Participle
lautus (feminine lauta, neuter lautum, comparative lautior, superlative lautissimus); first/second-declension participle
- washed, bathed, having been washed
- elegant, luxurious, noble, glorious, rich, splendid
- Synonyms: splendidus, glōriōsus, ēlegāns, opulēns
- fashionable, refined
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lautus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live well: laute vivere (Nep. Chab. 3. 2)
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)