patens

English

Noun

patens

1. plural of paten

Anagrams

• pesant, septan, Stepan, pentas, Pentas

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of pateō (“I am open”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tens/, [ˈpät̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tens/, [ˈpäːt̪ens]

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		patentēs	patentia
ablative	patentī			patentibus
vocative	patēns			patentēs	patentia

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’s 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...)