patens

English

Noun

patens

1. plural of paten

Anagrams

• pesant, septan, Stepan, pentas, Pentas

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of pateō (“to be open”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.tẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.tens]

Participle

patēns (genitive patentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. being opening; open
2. being accessible; accessible, passable
3. being exposed; vulnerable
4. evident, manifest

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	patēns			patentēs	patentia
genitive	patentis			patentium
dative	patentī			patentibus
accusative	patentem	patēns		patentēs patentīs	patentia
ablative	patente patentī1			patentibus
vocative	patēns			patentēs	patentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Adjective

patēns (genitive patentis, comparative patentior, superlative patentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. open, accessible

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	patēns			patentēs	patentia
genitive	patentis			patentium
dative	patentī			patentibus
accusative	patentem	patēns		patentīs patentēs	patentia
ablative	patentī patente			patentibus
vocative	patēns			patentēs	patentia

Descendants

• Sardinian: padente (“forest”)
• → Catalan: patent
• → Italian: patente
• → Old French: patent
  • → Middle French: patent
    • French: patent
      • → Romanian: patent
    • → Middle English: patent
      • English: patent
• → Portuguese: patente
• → Sardinian: patente
• → Spanish: patente

References

• “patens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "patens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “patens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a breach: patentia ruinis (vid. XII. 1, note ruina...)