auratus

== Latin == === Etymology === From aurum (“gold”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”). Can also be analyzed as the perfect passive participle of aurō (“I gild”), which is cited by Priscian as the derivation. However, finite forms of this verb are rare and are first attested later than the adjective/participle, in a single doubtful passage in Tertullian. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯ˈraː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯ˈraː.tus] === Participle === aurātus (feminine aurāta, neuter aurātum); first/second-declension participle furnished, overlaid or ornamented with gold, gilded, having been gilded colored with gold, gold-coloured ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Adjective === aurātus (feminine aurāta, neuter aurātum); first/second-declension adjective golden gilded ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: orato, → aurato (learned) === References === === Further reading === “auratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “auratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “auratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.