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Latin
Etymology
From ostrea (“oyster”) + -ātus; i.e. "like the shell of an oyster".
Pronunciation
Adjective
ostreātus (feminine ostreāta, neuter ostreātum); first/second-declension adjective
- (rare) rough, scabby
c. 194 BCE,
Plautus,
Poenulus 398:
- itaque iam quasi ostreatum tergum ulceribus gestito / propter amorem vestrum.
- 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley. (The Comedies of Plautus. London. G. Bell and Sons. Perseus.)
- MILPHIO: as it is, I've already got my back about as hard with weals as an oyster-shell, by reason of your amours.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “ostreatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ostreatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.