incitatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of incitō (“incite, hasten”).
Participle
incitātus (feminine incitāta, neuter incitātum, comparative incitātior); first/second-declension participle
- hastened, urged, accelerated, having been quickened
- augmented, increased, having been enhanced
- (figuratively) incited, encouraged, having been roused
- (figuratively) in a negative sense, incited against, made hostile, stirred up; having been …, etc.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.4:
- Cum cīvitās, ob eam rem incitāta, armīs iūs suum exsequī cōnārētur, multitūdinemque hominum ex agrīs magistrātūs cōgerent, […] .
- While the state, having been made hostile [to Orgetorix] on account of this matter, was attempting to prosecute its own legal right with armed forces, and the magistrates were gathering a multitude of men from the fields, […] .
- Cum cīvitās, ob eam rem incitāta, armīs iūs suum exsequī cōnārētur, multitūdinemque hominum ex agrīs magistrātūs cōgerent, […] .
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | incitātus | incitāta | incitātum | incitātī | incitātae | incitāta | |
| genitive | incitātī | incitātae | incitātī | incitātōrum | incitātārum | incitātōrum | |
| dative | incitātō | incitātae | incitātō | incitātīs | |||
| accusative | incitātum | incitātam | incitātum | incitātōs | incitātās | incitāta | |
| ablative | incitātō | incitātā | incitātō | incitātīs | |||
| vocative | incitāte | incitāta | incitātum | incitātī | incitātae | incitāta | |
References
- “incitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “incitatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring horses to the halt when at full gallop: equos incitatos sustinere
- at high tide: aestu incitato
- to bring horses to the halt when at full gallop: equos incitatos sustinere