paratus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of parō (“I prepare”).

Participle

parātus (feminine parāta, neuter parātum, comparative parātior, superlative parātissimus); first/second-declension participle

prepared, arranged, having been prepared or arranged
semper paratus
always prepared (motto of several organisations, including the U.S. Coast Guard)
provided, furnished, having been provided or furnished
resolved, purposed, having been resolved or purposed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	parātus	parāta	parātum	parātī	parātae	parāta
genitive	parātī	parātae	parātī	parātōrum	parātārum	parātōrum
dative	parātō	parātae	parātō	parātīs
accusative	parātum	parātam	parātum	parātōs	parātās	parāta
ablative	parātō	parātā	parātō	parātīs
vocative	parāte	parāta	parātum	parātī	parātae	parāta

comparative: parātior, superlative: parātissimus.

Descendants

→ Proto-Brythonic: *parọd (see there for further descendants)
→ Dutch: paraat
→ German: parat
→ Danish: parat

Etymology 2

From parō.

Noun

parātus m (genitive parātūs); fourth declension

preparation, provision

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	parātus	parātūs
genitive	parātūs	parātuum
dative	parātuī	parātibus
accusative	parātum	parātūs
ablative	parātū	parātibus
vocative	parātus	parātūs

References

“paratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“paratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"paratus", 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)
paratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
- (ambiguous) to be ready to endure anything: omnia perpeti paratum esse