iratus

Latin

Etymology

From īra (“anger, rage, wrath”) +‎ -ātus, later construed as the perfect active participle of īrāscor, which arose from it by back-formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iːˈraː.tus/, [iːˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈra.tus/, [iˈräːt̪us]

Participle

īrātus (feminine īrāta, neuter īrātum, comparative īrātior, superlative īrātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. angry, irate, angered, enraged, furious, wrathful
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:22

     ad haec uxor eius irata respondit manifeste vana facta est spes tua et elemosynae tuae modo paruerunt

     At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	īrātus	īrāta	īrātum		īrātī	īrātae	īrāta
genitive	īrātī	īrātae	īrātī		īrātōrum	īrātārum	īrātōrum
dative	īrātō	īrātae	īrātō		īrātīs
accusative	īrātum	īrātam	īrātum		īrātōs	īrātās	īrāta
ablative	īrātō	īrātā	īrātō		īrātīs
vocative	īrāte	īrāta	īrātum		īrātī	īrātae	īrāta

Derived terms

• īrāscor

Related terms

• īra
• īrācundē
• īrācunditer
• īrācundus
• īrāscentia
• īrāscibilis
• īrāscitīvus
• īrāscor
• īrātē

 

Descendants

• Catalan: irat
• English: irate
• Galician: irado
• Italian: irato
• Portuguese: irado
• Romanian: iritat
• Spanish: iracundo

References

• “iratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• iratus 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)
• iratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the favour of heaven: dei propitii (opp. irati)