accuratus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of accūrō (“take care of”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ak.kuːˈraː.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ak.kuˈraː.t̪us]
Participle
accūrātus (feminine accūrāta, neuter accūrātum, comparative accūrātior, adverb accūrātē); first/second-declension participle
- taken care of, prepared with care, having been taken care of
- (by extension) careful, accurate, exact
- (by extension) studied
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | accūrātus | accūrāta | accūrātum | accūrātī | accūrātae | accūrāta | |
| genitive | accūrātī | accūrātae | accūrātī | accūrātōrum | accūrātārum | accūrātōrum | |
| dative | accūrātō | accūrātae | accūrātō | accūrātīs | |||
| accusative | accūrātum | accūrātam | accūrātum | accūrātōs | accūrātās | accūrāta | |
| ablative | accūrātō | accūrātā | accūrātō | accūrātīs | |||
| vocative | accūrāte | accūrāta | accūrātum | accūrātī | accūrātae | accūrāta | |
Descendants
- → Belarusian: акура́тны (akurátny), акура́т (akurát)
- Catalan: acurat
- Italian: accurato
- → Romanian: acurat
- Portuguese: acurado
- Spanish: acurado
- → Danish: akkurat
- Icelandic: akkúrat
- → English: accurate
- → German: akkurat
- → Icelandic: akkúrat
- → Polish: akurat, akuratny
- → Ukrainian: акура́тний (akurátnyj), акура́т (akurát)
- → Norwegian:
- → Russian: аккура́тный (akkurátnyj), аккура́т (akkurát)
- → Georgian: აკურატული (aḳuraṭuli)
- → Swedish: ackurat
References
- “accuratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accuratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accuratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a carefully prepared speech: oratio accurata et polita
- a carefully prepared speech: oratio accurata et polita