fatus

Perfect active participle of for (“speak, say”). From Proto-Italic *fātos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-tó-s.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t̪us]

fātus (feminine fāta, neuter fātum); first/second-declension participle

1. spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.685:

     [...] Sīc fāta gradūs ēvāserat altōs [...].

     As she had spoken these words [Anna] had been climbing the high steps [up to Dido’s pyre…].
     (T.E. Page [1967], pg. 393, notes that “‘fata’ is really a present” tense in this context, i.e.: While saying these words….)

First/second-declension adjective.

fātus m (genitive fātūs); fourth declension

1. word, saying
2. oracle, prophecy
3. fate

Fourth-declension noun.

• fātum

• “fatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fatus", 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)
• fatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

fatus

1. predicative plural of fat