ratis

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English

Noun

ratis

  1. plural of rati

Catalan

Verb

ratis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of ratar

Latin

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Lithuanian rekles (“scaffolding”), Old Church Slavonic ратисте (ratiste, “staff, spear”), Latin rētae (“trees standing on the bank of a stream”). Also possibly connected to the Germanic roots of rood and rod.

Noun

ratis f (genitive ratis); third declension

  1. (literally) raft
  2. pontoon bridge
  3. (transferred sense, poetic) boat, ship, vessel
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.53:
      “ quassātaeque ratēs, dum nōn tractābile caelum.”
      “ while heaven is unfavorable, and ships storm-damaged.”

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ratis ratēs
Genitive ratis ratium
Dative ratī ratibus
Accusative ratem
ratim 		ratēs
ratīs
Ablative rate
ratī 		ratibus
Vocative ratis ratēs

Descendants

  • Old French: reth (hapax)
  • Old Occitan: rat

Adjective

ratīs

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of ratus

References

  • “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “ratis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ratis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Noun

ratis m pl or f pl

  1. plural of rati
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