agnatus

Latin

Etymology

ad- + gnātus

Noun

agnātus m (genitive agnātī); second declension

A relative connected through the male line; an agnate
(law) An afterborn son, born after his father had made a will

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agnātus	agnātī
Genitive	agnātī	agnātōrum
Dative	agnātō	agnātīs
Accusative	agnātum	agnātōs
Ablative	agnātō	agnātīs
Vocative	agnāte	agnātī

Coordinate terms

cognātus, ēnātus, gentīlis, hērēs

Derived terms

agnascor
agnatus proximus

Descendants

English: agnate
French: agnat
Italian: agnato
Portuguese: agnato
Spanish: agnado

References

agnatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Institutes of Gaius, AD 161, defines in detail the civil law meaning of agatus of ancient Rome. A translation by M. H. Crawford is in Roman Statutes, 1996.

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