Fromīra(“anger, rage, wrath”) +-ātus, later construed as the perfect active participle ofīrāscor, which arose from it byback-formation.[1]
īrātus (feminineīrāta,neuterīrātum,comparativeīrātior,superlativeīrātissimus);first/second-declension participle
- angry,irate,angered,enraged,furious,wrathful
- 4th century,St Jerome,Vulgate,Tobit 2:22
ad haec uxor eiusirata respondit manifeste vana facta est spes tua et elemosynae tuae modo paruerunt- At these words his wifebeing angry answered: It is evident the hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.
First/second-declension adjective.
- “iratus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "iratus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- iratus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- the favour of heaven:dei propitii (opp.irati)
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “īra”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages308–309
