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gagates

gagates

Latin

Noun

gagātēs m ‎(genitive gagātae); first declension

(with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess.

Inflection

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gagātēs	gagātae
genitive	gagātae	gagātārum
dative	gagātae	gagātīs
accusative	gagātēn	gagātās
ablative	gagātē	gagātīs
vocative	gagātē	gagātae

Descendants

English: jess, jet
French: jais
Russian: гагат ‎(gagat)

References

gagates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gagates”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.