pateo

See also: pateó

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-.

Cognate with pandō, Oscan patensíns (“they opened”), Ancient Greek πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, to spread wide”) (< *peth₂-néu-) and πίτνημι (pítnēmi, “to spread out”) (< *pt-ne-h₂-), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬀‎ (paθana, “broad”), Old English fæþm (whence English fathom).

Pronunciation

Verb

pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. I am open, accessible, attainable.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.371-372:
      ‘atque utinam pugnae pateat locus! arma capessant
      et, sī nōn poterunt exsuperāre, cadant’
      “Yet if only a battlefield would open! May they fight; and, if they are unable to prevail, let them fall.”
      (The poetic voice of Mars, asking Jupiter to defend Rome against the invading Gauls, is saying in effect, “Give the Romans a chance to fight.”)
    Synonym: patesco
  2. I am exposed, vulnerable.
  3. I increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
    • Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:
      Fīnēs...quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum dūcenta...patēbant.
  4. To be clear, evident.

Conjugation
   Conjugation of pateō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pateō patēs patet patēmus patētis patent
imperfect patēbam patēbās patēbat patēbāmus patēbātis patēbant
future patēbō patēbis patēbit patēbimus patēbitis patēbunt
perfect patuī patuistī patuit patuimus patuistis patuērunt,
patuēre
pluperfect patueram patuerās patuerat patuerāmus patuerātis patuerant
future perfect patuerō patueris patuerit patuerimus patueritis patuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pateam pateās pateat pateāmus pateātis pateant
imperfect patērem patērēs patēret patērēmus patērētis patērent
perfect patuerim patuerīs patuerit patuerīmus patuerītis patuerint
pluperfect patuissem patuissēs patuisset patuissēmus patuissētis patuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — patē — — patēte —
future — patētō patētō — patētōte patentō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives patēre patuisse — — — —
participles patēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
patendī patendō patendum patendō — —

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: patent
  • English: patent
  • French: patent, patente
  • Italian: patente
  • Portuguese: patente
  • Spanish: patente

References
  • “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pateo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    • from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
    • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)

Portuguese

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pátio

Spanish

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

  1. stomp; stomping; stamp; stamping

Verb

pateo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of patear

Further reading
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