gagates

English

Noun

gagates

  1. plural of gagate

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs, “lignite; jet”), ultimately of Anatolian, possibly Pre-Greek, origin. Pliny compares the places Γάγας (Gágas) and Γάγγαι (Gángai), both from Lycian.[1]

Noun

gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension

  1. (with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gagātēs gagātae
Genitive gagātae gagātārum
Dative gagātae gagātīs
Accusative gagātēn gagātās
Ablative gagātē gagātīs
Vocative gagātē gagātae

Descendants
  • Dutch: git
  • → English: gagate
  • → German: Gagat
  • Italian: gagate
  • Old French: jayet
  • Piedmontese: giaj
  • Russian: гагат (gagat)
  • Spanish: gagates

References
  • “gagates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gagates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page Γαγάτης
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