inveteratus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of inveterō (“give age or duration to something”). === Participle === inveterātus (feminine inveterāta, neuter inveterātum); first/second-declension participle rendered old, given age or duration, aged, having been rendered old (by extension) kept for a long time, preserved (by extension) inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted (by extension, of diseases) deep-seated, chronic, inveterate ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “inveteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “inveteratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.