inveteratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of inveterō (“give age or duration to something”).

Participle

inveterātus (feminine inveterāta, neuter inveterātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. rendered old, given age or duration, aged, having been rendered old
  2. (by extension) kept for a long time, preserved
  3. (by extension) inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted
  4. (by extension, of diseases) deep-seated, chronic, inveterate

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative inveterātus inveterāta inveterātum inveterātī inveterātae inveterāta
genitive inveterātī inveterātae inveterātī inveterātōrum inveterātārum inveterātōrum
dative inveterātō inveterātae inveterātō inveterātīs
accusative inveterātum inveterātam inveterātum inveterātōs inveterātās inveterāta
ablative inveterātō inveterātā inveterātō inveterātīs
vocative inveterāte inveterāta inveterātum inveterātī inveterātae inveterāta

Descendants

  • Catalan: inveterat
  • French: invétéré
  • Galician: inveterado
  • Italian: inveterato
  • Occitan: inveterat
  • Portuguese: inveterado
  • Spanish: inveterado

References

  • “inveteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inveteratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a rooted opinion: opinio confirmata, inveterata
    • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)
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