gagates

English

Noun

gagates

plural of gagate

Latin

Etymology

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

gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension

(with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	gagātēs	gagātae gagātēs
genitive	gagātae gagātis	gagātārum gagātium
dative	gagātae gagātī	gagātīs gagātibus
accusative	gagātēn gagātem	gagātās gagātēs gagātīs
ablative	gagātē gagāte	gagātīs gagātibus
vocative	gagātē gagātēs	gagātae gagātēs

Descendants

Dutch: git
→ English: gagate
→ German: Gagat
Italian: gagate
Old French: jayet
- French: jais
- Middle English: get
  - English: jet
    - → German: Jett
Piedmontese: giaj
Russian: гагат (gagat)
Spanish: gagates

References

“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

[1] 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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