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English
Noun
patens
- plural of paten
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of pateō (“I am open”)
Pronunciation
Participle
patēns (genitive patentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being opening; open
- being accessible; accessible, passable
- being exposed; vulnerable
- evident, manifest
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Adjective
patēns (genitive patentis, comparative patentior, superlative patentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- open, accessible
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
References
- “patens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patens 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)
- patens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a breach: patentia ruinis (vid. XII. 1, note ruina...)