Latin

Adjective

īrātus m ‎(feminine īrāta, neuter īrātum); first/second declension

1. irate, angered, enraged, furious
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:22

     ad haec uxor eius irata respondit manifeste vana facta est spes tua et elemosynae tuae modo paruerunt (At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.)

Inflection

First/second declension.

• comparative: īrātior, superlative: īrātissimus

Derived terms

• irāscor

Related terms

Descendants

• English: irate

References

• iratus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• IRATUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “iratus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the favour of heaven: dei propitii (opp. irati)
    

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill