noun · femininethird declension
ratis
ratis f (genitive ratis)
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- feminineliterallyraft
- femininepontoon bridge
- femininepoeticboat, ship, vessel
[...] 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.”29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.53
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
nāvis ex lignīs iūnctīs facta, sine vēlō.ratis -is f — in Mille Verba, Mare et Nāvēs
nāvis plāna ex lignīsraft
ratis -is (f) — in De Bello Gallico I, ch. 6 and De Bello Gallico III, ch. 11
ligna iūncta quae in aquā natantratis -is (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 2
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ratis | ratēs |
| genitive | ratis | ratium |
| dative | ratī | ratibus |
| accusative | ratem ratim | ratēs ratīs |
| ablative | rate ratī | ratibus |
| vocative | ratis | ratēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- motus stellarum constantes et rati
- the regular courses of the stars.
rătis (rătes, acc. to Prob. p. 1473
I. fin.; yet perh. we should here read vates; acc. ratim, Hyg. Fab. 175), is, f. Sanscr. ar-i-tras that which propels, an oar; Gr. ἐρέτης, rower; ἐρέσσω, to row; Lat.: remus, remigium, triremis, etc..
1. A vessel made of logs fastened together, a raft: rates vocantur tigna colligata, quae per aquam aguntur; quo vocabulo interdum etiam naves significantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 272 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 273, 22 ib.:
nave primus in Graeciam ex Aegypto Danaus advenit, antea ratibus navigabatur inventis in mari Rubro inter insulas a rege Erythrā, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 206; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 5: transeunt Rhenum navibus ratibusque, Caes. B. G. 6, 35: trabibus verius quam ratibus, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 53; Caes. B. C. 1, 25: ratibus quibus junxerat flumen, nondum resolutis, etc., i. e. pontoons, Liv. 21, 47: tamquam in rate in mari immenso nostra vehitur ratio, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73 B. and K.—2. A float: quasi pueris qui nare discunt, scirpea induitur ratis, Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 9.—
3. Prov.:
servavisti omnem ratem, you have saved us from shipwreck, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 15; cf. id. ib. 3, 2, 53; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 27.— B. Meton., in the poets, a bark, boat, vessel, in gen.: caeruleum spumat sale confertā rate pulsum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 659 P. (Ann. v. 378 Vahl.); Naev. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 23 Müll.; Att. ap. Fest. s. v. rates, p. 272 ib.; Cat. 63, 1; 64, 121; Verg. G. 2, 445; id. A. 1, 43; 3, 192; 4, 53.—
Of Charon's boat, Verg. A. 6, 302.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ratis is, f
2 AR-, a raft, float : aut ratibus aut navibus accedere: transeunt Rhenum navibus ratibusque, Cs.: rates quibus iunxerat flumen, i. e. pontoons , L.— A bark, boat, vessel : et pandas ratibus posuere carinas, V.: prima, i. e. the Argo , O.
Origins
From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Lithuanian reklės (“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”).
Descendants
- Frenchradeaufrom Old Occitan rat
- Englishradeaufrom Old Occitan rat
- Old Frenchreth