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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”). Cognate with vatius (“bow-legged”), Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve, bend; calf of the leg, knee”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vatāx (genitive vatācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- with crooked feet
Usage notes
The orthography was emended to vatrāx because it was supposedly derived from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”). It appears under this spelling in Lewis and Short.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
References
- “vā̆trāx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vatax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Eric Herbert Warmington (1935) Remains of old Latin; newly edited and translated, page 274