moratus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of moror.

Pronunciation

Participle

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

  1. (intransitive) having loitered, lingered
  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

Adjective

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

  1. (of someone) mannered; of morals
    bene mōrāta muliera 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.

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus