occupatus

Perfect passive participle of occupō (“occupy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.kʊˈpaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ok.kuˈpaː.tus]

occupātus (feminine occupāta, neuter occupātum, superlative occupātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. occupied, filled, having been taken up.
2. seized, invaded, having been taken possession of.
3. anticipated, having been anticipated.
4. employed, made use of, having been made use of.

First/second-declension adjective.

From occupō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

• occupātus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.kʊˈpaː.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ok.kuˈpaː.tus]
• occupātūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.kʊˈpaː.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ok.kuˈpaː.tus]

occupātus m (genitive occupātūs); fourth declension

1. occupation, employment

Fourth-declension noun.

• “occŭpātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occŭpātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occupātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “occŭpātus / occŭpātŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the busy life of a statesman: vita occupata (vid. sect. VII. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be engaged upon a matter: occupatum esse in aliqua re