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vates: all forms

vates means “prophet, seer; poet, bard”. Below is its full declension in Latin.

Forms

Forms, singular
Masculine
Nominativevates
Genitivevatis
Dativevati
Accusativevatem · vatim
Ablativevate · vati
Vocativevates
Locativevate
Forms, plural
Masculine
Nominativevates
Genitivevatum · vatium
Dativevatibus
Accusativevates
Ablativevatibus
Vocativevates
Locativevatibus

Meaning and examples of vates

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.