moratus

Latin

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Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of moror.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈraː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈraː.tus]

Participle

morātus (feminine morāta, neuter morātum); first/second-declension participle

1. (intransitive) having loitered, lingered
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.5:

     Paucos dies ibi morati

     They lingered a few days there

2. (transitive) having delayed; hindered
3. (transitive) having impeded, detained, held back

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	morātus	morāta	morātum		morātī	morātae	morāta
genitive	morātī	morātae	morātī		morātōrum	morātārum	morātōrum
dative	morātō	morātae	morātō		morātīs
accusative	morātum	morātam	morātum		morātōs	morātās	morāta
ablative	morātō	morātā	morātō		morātīs
vocative	morāte	morāta	morātum		morātī	morātae	morāta

Etymology 2

From mōs +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [moːˈraː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈraː.tus]

Adjective

mōrātus (feminine mōrāta, neuter mōrātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (of someone) mannered; of morals

   bene mōrāta mulier ― a well-mannered woman

2. (of something) adapted to the manners or character of a person, or to the subject, characteristic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mōrātus	mōrāta	mōrātum		mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrāta
genitive	mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrātī		mōrātōrum	mōrātārum	mōrātōrum
dative	mōrātō	mōrātae	mōrātō		mōrātīs
accusative	mōrātum	mōrātam	mōrātum		mōrātōs	mōrātās	mōrāta
ablative	mōrātō	mōrātā	mōrātō		mōrātīs
vocative	mōrāte	mōrāta	mōrātum		mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrāta

References

• “mŏrātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mōrātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mōrātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “moratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "moratus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus