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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of violō.
Participle
violātus (feminine violāta, neuter violātum); first/second-declension participle
- (having been) violated; (having been) injured; (having been) invaded; (having been) profaned
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.649–650:
- silva vetus nūllaque diū violātā secūrī
stābat, Maenaliō sacra relicta deō.- There stood an ancient grove, and for a long time never violated by any ax, left sacred to the Maenalian deity.
(See Mainalo and Pan (god).)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “violatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “violatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- violatus 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)
- violatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to invoke an irrevocable curse on the profanation of sacred rites: violatas caerimonias inexpiabili religione sancire (Tusc. 1. 12. 27)