gagates

== English == === Noun === gagates 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. === Noun === gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension (with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== Dutch: git → English: gagate → German: Gagat Italian: gagate Old French: jayet French: jais Middle English: get English: jet → German: Jett 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.