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Latin
Etymology
From volō (“fly”) + -āticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
volāticus (feminine volātica, neuter volāticum); first/second-declension adjective
- winged, flying
- flighty, inconstant
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
References
Further reading
- “volaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “volaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- volaticus 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)
- volaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.