alata

Participle

alata

1. feminine singular of alato

Adjective

ālāta

1. nominative feminine singular of ālātus
2. nominative neuter plural of ālātus
3. accusative neuter plural of ālātus
4. vocative feminine singular of ālātus
5. nominative neuter plural of ālātus

ālātā

1. ablative feminine singular of ālātus

References

• alata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German alat, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *al- (“white, shiny”), first mentioned in 18th-century sources.^[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

alata f (4th declension)

1. common bleak (small river fish of the family Cyprinidae, species Alburnus alburnus)

   alatu dzimta ― grayling (taxonomic) family

   ej tikai pie upes un velc zivis ārā: asarus ar tārpu, raudas ar sienāzi, bet foreles, alatas;, sīgas un citas gudrākas zivis ar mušu vai kāpuru. ― just go to the river and pull the fish out: perches with a worm, roaches with a grasshopper; but trouts, graylings, whitefish and other smarter fish with a fly or a fly larva

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