ultus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of ulcīscor (“to avenge; to punish wrongs; to take revenge on”).

Pronunciation

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

Participle

ultus (feminine ulta, neuter ultum); first/second-declension participle

1. having avenged
2. having punished wrongs or injustices
3. having taken vengeance on

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ultus	ulta	ultum		ultī	ultae	ulta
genitive	ultī	ultae	ultī		ultōrum	ultārum	ultōrum
dative	ultō	ultae	ultō		ultīs
accusative	ultum	ultam	ultum		ultōs	ultās	ulta
ablative	ultō	ultā	ultō		ultīs
vocative	ulte	ulta	ultum		ultī	ultae	ulta

Derived terms

• inultus

Descendants

• → Italian: ulto

References

• “ultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ultus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.