mattus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === mātus === Etymology === Syncopated from *madĭtus (with subsequent assimilation of /dt/ to /tt/), from madēre (“be drunk, be wet”), itself from Proto-Italic *madēō, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate of Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmat.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmat.tus] === Adjective === mattus (feminine matta, neuter mattum); first/second-declension adjective drunk, intoxicated Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== ēbrius ==== Descendants ==== French: mat Italian: matto === References === “mattus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mattus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mattus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 518