gagates
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
gagates
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs, “lignite; jet”), ultimately of Anatolian, possibly Pre-Greek, origin. Pliny compares the places Γάγας (Gágas) and Γάγγαι (Gángai), both from Lycian.[1]
Noun[edit]
gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gagātēs | gagātae |
Genitive | gagātae | gagātārum |
Dative | gagātae | gagātīs |
Accusative | gagātēn | gagātās |
Ablative | gagātē | gagātīs |
Vocative | gagātē | gagātae |
Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: git
- → English: gagate
- → German: Gagat
- Italian: gagate
- Old French: jayet
- Piedmontese: giaj
- Russian: гагат (gagat)
- Spanish: gagates
References[edit]
- “gagates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gagates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page Γαγάτης
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- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Anatolian languages
- Latin terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Latin terms derived from Lycian
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- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the first declension
- Latin masculine nouns