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pateo
pateo
See also: pateó
Latin
Verb
pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive
- I am open.
- I am accessible, attainable.
- I am exposed, vulnerable.
- I increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
- Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:
- Fines...qui in longitudinem milia passuum ducenta...patebant.
- Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:
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References
- pateo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pateo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pateo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
- I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
- from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
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(ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
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(ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
- the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet