-aticum

Latin

Alternative forms

• -āgium (medieval France and England; reborrowed from Old French -age)

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter form of -āticus (adjective-forming suffix), with the Classical viāticum perhaps serving as its forerunner.

Suffix

-āticum n (genitive -āticī); second declension (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)

1. Used to form nouns indicating pertinence to the root verb or noun.
2. Used to form nouns indicating a state of being resulting from an action.

   missus (“sent”) → missāticum (“message”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-āticum	-ātica
Genitive	-āticī	-āticōrum
Dative	-āticō	-āticīs
Accusative	-āticum	-ātica
Ablative	-āticō	-āticīs
Vocative	-āticum	-ātica

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -aticum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: -atic
  • Romanian: -atic, -atec
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: -aticu
  • Italian: -atico
    • → Ladin: -atich
    • → Romagnol: -àtic
  • Neapolitan: -ateco
  • Sicilian: -àticu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: -adeg, -adg, -âdg
    • Ligurian: -ægo (earlier -aigo)
    • Lombard: -àdeg, -àdig, -àdi
    • Piedmontese: -aj
    • Romagnol: -êdg, -êdgh
  • Friulian: -adi
  • Romansch: -adi
  • Venetian: -adego, -ego
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: -âjo

    Brionnais: -âdze

    Fribourgeois: -âdzo

    Jurassien: -aidge

  • Old French: -age, -aige; -aje (rare)
    • Angevin: -ége, -éje
    • Bourguignon: -aige, -eige
    • Champenois: -age, -aige, -ège
    • Franc-Comtois: -aidge, -aige
    • Middle French: -age (see there for further descendants)
    • Gallo: -aige
    • Lorrain: -èdje, -ège, -êge
    • Picard: -åjhe
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: -age, -ajhe
    • Walloon: -aedje
    • → Medieval Latin: -āgium
    • → Middle English: -age
      • English: -age
      • Scots: -age
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: -atge
  • Gascon: /-ˈadje/
  • Old Occitan: -atge (borrowings below may also come from Old French)
    • Occitan: -atge
    • → Aragonese: -ache
    • → Asturian: -axe
    • → Italian: -aggio
    • → Ladin: -aje
    • → Lombard: -agg, -acc
    • → Neapolitan: -aggio
    • → Piedmontese: -age, -agi
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: -age
      • Galician: -axe
      • Portuguese: -agem
    • → Sicilian: -aggiu, -aju
    • → Old Spanish: -age, -aje, -atge
      • Spanish: -aje
    • → Venetian: -ajo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: -azgo
  • Old Leonese: -algo
    • Asturian: -algo
    • Leonese: -algo
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: -adego
    • Galician: -ádego, -ádigo
    • Portuguese: -ádego, -ádigo
  • Old Spanish: -adgo
    • Spanish: -azgo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: -adigu, -aticu
• Borrowings:
  • → French: -atique
  • → Portuguese: -ático
  • → Spanish: -ático

References

• Tito Zanardelli (1906) “I nomi locali in -aticus: nell' Emilia e nella Romagna”, in Giacomo de Gregorio, editor, Studi glottologici italiani‎, volume 3, Torino: Ermanno Loescher, pages 1-48.
• David G. Patterson (1973) “The Latin suffix -aticu in early Old Spanish”, in Vox Romanica, volume 32, Bern: A. Francke AG Verlag, →DOI, pages 60-65.