lautus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”). Doublet of lavātus and lōtus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫau̯.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaːu̯.t̪us]

Participle

lautus (feminine lauta, neuter lautum, comparative lautior, superlative lautissimus); first/second-declension participle

washed, bathed, having been washed
elegant, luxurious, noble, glorious, rich, splendid
Synonyms: splendidus, glōriōsus, ēlegāns, opulēns
fashionable, refined

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	lautus	lauta	lautum	lautī	lautae	lauta
genitive	lautī	lautae	lautī	lautōrum	lautārum	lautōrum
dative	lautō	lautae	lautō	lautīs
accusative	lautum	lautam	lautum	lautōs	lautās	lauta
ablative	lautō	lautā	lautō	lautīs
vocative	laute	lauta	lautum	lautī	lautae	lauta

Descendants

⇒ Galician: louza
⇒ Portuguese: louça
⇒ Spanish: loza
→ Galician: lauto
→ Italian: lauto
→ Portuguese: lauto

References

“lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"lautus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
lautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live well: laute vivere (Nep. Chab. 3. 2)
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)