meditatus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of meditor.

Participle

meditātus (feminine meditāta, neuter meditātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. meditated
    • c. 58–57 BCE, Cicero, De Haruspicum Responso:
      Nihil feci iratus, nihil impotenti animo, nihil non diu consideratum et multo ante meditatum.
      Nothing that I did was done in anger or upon uncontrolled impulse; there was nothing that I had not long pondered and rehearsed some considerable time before.
  2. intentional, premeditated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative meditātus meditāta meditātum meditātī meditātae meditāta
Genitive meditātī meditātae meditātī meditātōrum meditātārum meditātōrum
Dative meditātō meditātō meditātīs
Accusative meditātum meditātam meditātum meditātōs meditātās meditāta
Ablative meditātō meditātā meditātō meditātīs
Vocative meditāte meditāta meditātum meditātī meditātae meditāta

References

  • meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • meditatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a prepared speech: oratio meditata (Plin. 26. 3. 7)