See vates on Wiktionary
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"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t-",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"en:People"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:",
"text": "[Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57:",
"text": "The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A poet or bard who is divinely inspired."
],
"links": [
[
"poet",
"poet"
],
[
"bard",
"bard"
],
[
"divinely",
"divinely"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈveɪtiz/"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ovat",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"word": "оват"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"word": "vaatti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"word": "vate"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"word": "vátesz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vate"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vate"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "divinely inspired poet",
"word": "vates"
}
],
"word": "vates"
}
{
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t-",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "vāticinor"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "vat"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: vat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: vat"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "vates"
},
"expansion": "English: vates",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: vates"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "vate"
},
"expansion": "French: vate",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: vate"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "vate"
},
"expansion": "Italian: vate",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: vate"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "vate"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: vate",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: vate"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "vate"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: vate",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: vate"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*weh₂t-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*wātis"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *wātis",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wéh₂tis",
"4": "*wéh₂t-i-s",
"5": "seer"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *wātis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh₂t- (“to be excited”).",
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{
"form": "vātēs",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "vātis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "vātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "vātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "vātum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "vātibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "vātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vāte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "vātibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "vātēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "vātēs<3>",
"g": "m",
"gen_pl": "vātum/vātium"
},
"expansion": "vātēs m (genitive vātis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "vātēs<3>",
"gen_pl": "vātum/vātium"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Alas, the unknowing minds of diviners!\n(Ambiguity: The statement may refer either to the haruspices accompanying Dido and Anna, or to the sisters’ own misinterpretations of the extispicia.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.65",
"text": "Heu, vātum ignārae mentēs!"
},
{
"english": "But the fortunate prophetess, since her life was most pleasing to the gods,\nthus as a goddess has a day in this month of Janus.\n(The prophetess who became honored as a goddess is Carmenta).",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.585–586",
"roman": "possidet hunc Iānī sīc dea mēnsē diem.",
"text": "at fēlīx vātēs, ut dīs grātissima vīxit,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"seer, soothsayer, diviner, prophet, prophetess"
],
"links": [
[
"seer",
"seer"
],
[
"soothsayer",
"soothsayer"
],
[
"diviner",
"diviner"
],
[
"prophet",
"prophet"
],
[
"prophetess",
"prophetess"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"poet, poetess, bard"
],
"links": [
[
"poet",
"poet"
],
[
"poetess",
"poetess"
],
[
"bard",
"bard"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "poēta"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"oracle"
],
"links": [
[
"oracle",
"oracle"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈu̯aː.teːs/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈu̯äːt̪eːs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈva.tes/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈväːt̪es]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vātis"
}
],
"word": "vates"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "vates f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
"Latvian non-lemma forms",
"Latvian noun forms",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "vate"
}
],
"glosses": [
"genitive singular of vate"
],
"links": [
[
"vate",
"vate#Latvian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "vates"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "m-p"
},
"expansion": "vates m pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "vate"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of vate"
],
"links": [
[
"vate",
"vate#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "vates"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vo",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "vates",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Volapük",
"lang_code": "vo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Volapük entries with incorrect language header",
"Volapük non-lemma forms",
"Volapük noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "vat"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dative plural of vat"
],
"links": [
[
"vat",
"vat#Volapük"
]
],
"tags": [
"dative",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "vates"
}
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