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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative parātus parāta parātum parātī parātae parāta
Genitive parātī parātae parātī parātōrum parātārum parātōrum
Dative parātō 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

Etymology 2

From parō.

Noun

parātus m (genitive parātūs); fourth declension

  1. preparation, provision
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case 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, 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
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