cordatus

Latin

Etymology

From cor (“heart (literally)", "mind, judgment (metaphorically)”) +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /korˈdaː.tus/, [kɔrˈd̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /korˈda.tus/, [korˈd̪äːt̪us]

Adjective

cordātus (feminine cordāta, neuter cordātum, adverb cordātē); first/second-declension adjective

1. wise, prudent, judicious, sagacious
2. (New Latin) heart-shaped; cordate (as a taxonomic epithet)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cordātus	cordāta	cordātum		cordātī	cordātae	cordāta
genitive	cordātī	cordātae	cordātī		cordātōrum	cordātārum	cordātōrum
dative	cordātō	cordātae	cordātō		cordātīs
accusative	cordātum	cordātam	cordātum		cordātōs	cordātās	cordāta
ablative	cordātō	cordātā	cordātō		cordātīs
vocative	cordāte	cordāta	cordātum		cordātī	cordātae	cordāta

Derived terms

• obcordātus

Descendants

• Galician: cordo
• Spanish: cuerdo

References

• “cordatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cordatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cordatus 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)
• cordatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.