viaticus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-

Proto-Italic *wiā

Latin via

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin viāticus

From via (“road, path”) + -āticus (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiˈaː.tɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈaː.ti.kus]

Adjective

viāticus (feminine viātica, neuter viāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Pertaining to traveling or a journey.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	viāticus	viātica	viāticum		viāticī	viāticae	viātica
genitive	viāticī	viāticae	viāticī		viāticōrum	viāticārum	viāticōrum
dative	viāticō	viāticae	viāticō		viāticīs
accusative	viāticum	viāticam	viāticum		viāticōs	viāticās	viātica
ablative	viāticō	viāticā	viāticō		viāticīs
vocative	viātice	viātica	viāticum		viāticī	viāticae	viātica

Derived terms

• viāticum

Descendants

• → English: viatic

Noun

viāticus m (genitive viāticī); second declension

1. a ride; a journey or a trip in a vehicle, on an animal/object, etc.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	viāticus	viāticī
genitive	viāticī	viāticōrum
dative	viāticō	viāticīs
accusative	viāticum	viāticōs
ablative	viāticō	viāticīs
vocative	viātice	viāticī

References

• “viaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "viaticus", 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)
• “viaticus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.