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Noun

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ratis

  1. plural of rati

Catalan

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Verb

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ratis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of ratar

Latin

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Etymology

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From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Lithuanian rekles (scaffolding), Old Church Slavonic ратиште (ratište, staff, spear), Latin rētae (trees standing on the bank of a stream). Also possibly connected to the Germanic roots of rood and rod. According to De Vaan, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (to row).

Noun

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ratis f (genitive ratis); third declension

  1. (literally) raft
  2. pontoon bridge
  3. (transferred sense, poetic) boat, ship, vessel
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.53:
      “[...] quassātaeque ratēs, dum nōn tractābile caelum.”
      “[You must delay Aeneas in Carthage,] while heaven [itself] is unfavorable, and [the Trojan] ships [are still] storm-damaged.”

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or ).

singular plural
nominative ratis ratēs
genitive ratis ratium
dative ratī ratibus
accusative ratem
ratim
ratēs
ratīs
ablative rate
ratī
ratibus
vocative ratis ratēs

Descendants

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  • Old French: reth (hapax)
  • Old Occitan: rat

Adjective

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ratīs

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of ratus

References

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  • ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ratis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ratis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Noun

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ratis m pl or f pl

  1. plural of rati
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