auratus

Latin

Etymology

From aurum (“gold”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”). Can also be analyzed as the perfect passive participle of aurō (“I gild”), which is cited by Priscian as the derivation. However, finite forms of this verb are rare and are first attested later than the adjective/participle, in a single doubtful passage in Tertullian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈraː.tus/, [äu̯ˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈra.tus/, [äu̯ˈräːt̪us]

Participle

aurātus (feminine aurāta, neuter aurātum); first/second-declension participle

1. furnished, overlaid or ornamented with gold, gilded, having been gilded
2. colored with gold, gold-coloured

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	aurātus	aurāta	aurātum		aurātī	aurātae	aurāta
Genitive	aurātī	aurātae	aurātī		aurātōrum	aurātārum	aurātōrum
Dative	aurātō		aurātō		aurātīs
Accusative	aurātum	aurātam	aurātum		aurātōs	aurātās	aurāta
Ablative	aurātō	aurātā	aurātō		aurātīs
Vocative	aurāte	aurāta	aurātum		aurātī	aurātae	aurāta

Adjective

aurātus (feminine aurāta, neuter aurātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. golden
2. gilded

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	aurātus	aurāta	aurātum		aurātī	aurātae	aurāta
Genitive	aurātī	aurātae	aurātī		aurātōrum	aurātārum	aurātōrum
Dative	aurātō		aurātō		aurātīs
Accusative	aurātum	aurātam	aurātum		aurātōs	aurātās	aurāta
Ablative	aurātō	aurātā	aurātō		aurātīs
Vocative	aurāte	aurāta	aurātum		aurātī	aurātae	aurāta

Descendants

• Italian: orato, → aurato (learned)

Further reading

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