different between paters vs patens

English

Noun

paters

1. plural of pater

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

paters

1. Plural form of pater

English

Noun

patens

1. plural of paten

Anagrams

• Pentas, Stepan, pentas, septan

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of pate? (“I am open”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa.tens/, [?pät???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.tens/, [?p??t??ns]

Participle

pat?ns (genitive patentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. being opening; open
2. being accessible; accessible, passable
3. being exposed; vulnerable
4. evident, manifest

Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Adjective

pat?ns (genitive patentis, comparative patentior, superlative patentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. open, accessible

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

References

• patens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• patens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.