adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
hāmātus
hāmātus (feminine hāmāta, neuter hāmātum)
Classical[haːˈmaː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[aˈmaː.tus]
Meaning
- adjectivehooked, crooked
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
hāmō similis, uncushāmātus -a -um — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 11
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hāmātus | hāmāta | hāmātum |
| genitive | hāmātī | hāmātae | hāmātī |
| dative | hāmātō | hāmātae | hāmātō |
| accusative | hāmātum | hāmātam | hāmātum |
| ablative | hāmātō | hāmātā | hāmātō |
| vocative | hāmāte | hāmāta | hāmātum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hāmātī | hāmātae | hāmāta |
| genitive | hāmātōrum | hāmātārum | hāmātōrum |
| dative | hāmātīs | hāmātīs | hāmātīs |
| accusative | hāmātōs | hāmātās | hāmāta |
| ablative | hāmātīs | hāmātīs | hāmātīs |
| vocative | hāmātī | hāmātae | hāmāta |
hāmātus, a, um, adj. hamus,
I. furnished with a hook, hooked.
B. Transf., shaped like a hook, hooked, crooked: hamatis uncinatisque corporibus concreta haec esse dicat, * Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121:
ensis, i. q. harpe, Ov. M. 5, 80 (cf.: ferrum curvo tenus abdidit hamo, id. ib. 4, 720).—II. Trop.:
hos ego viscatis hamatisque muneribus non sua promere puto, sed aliena corripere, i. e. catching, alluring, Plin. Ep. 9, 30, 2 (cf. with hamus, id. Pan. 43 fin.; Mart. 6, 63, 5; v. hamus, I. B. 1. b.).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hāmātus adj.
hamus, furnished with a hook, hooked : ungues, O.: harundo, O.— Shaped like a hook, hooked, crooked : corpora: ensis, O.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin hāmātus From hāmus (“hook”) + -ātus.
Descendants
- Englishhamate