pateo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).

Cognate with pandō, Oscan patensíns (“they opened”), Ancient Greek πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, to spread wide”) (< *peth₂-néu-) and πίτνημι (pítnēmi, “to spread out”) (< *pt-ne-h₂-), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬀 (paθana, “broad”), Old English fæþm (whence English fathom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.o/,

Verb

pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to be open, accessible, attainable
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.371–372:

     ‘atque utinam pugnae pateat locus! arma capessant
     et, sī nōn poterunt exsuperāre, cadant’

     “Yet if only a battlefield would open! May they fight; and, if they are unable to prevail, let them fall.”
     (The poetic voice of Mars, asking Jupiter to defend Rome against the invading Gauls, is saying in effect, “Give the Romans a chance to fight.”)

   Synonym: patesco

2. to be exposed, vulnerable
3. to increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
   • Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, book 1, chapter 2:

     Fīnēs...quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patēbant.

4. To be clear, evident

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Catalan: patent
• English: patent
• French: patent, patente
• Italian: patente
• Portuguese: patente
• Spanish: patente

References

• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pateo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
    
  • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449

Portuguese

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. Obsolete spelling of pátio

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈteo/
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: pa‧te‧o

Etymology 1

Deverbal from patear.

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. stomp; stomping; stamp; stamping

Etymology 2

Verb

pateo

1. first-person singular present indicative of patear

Further reading

• “pateo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014