-aticum

Latin

Alternative forms

-āgium (medieval France and England; reborrowed from Old French -age)

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter form of -āticus (adjective-forming suffix), with the Classical viāticum perhaps serving as its forerunner.

Suffix

-āticum n (genitive -āticī); second declension (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)

Used to form nouns indicating pertinence to the root verb or noun.
Used to form nouns indicating a state of being resulting from an action.
missus (“sent”) → missāticum (“message”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-āticum	-ātica
Genitive	-āticī	-āticōrum
Dative	-āticō	-āticīs
Accusative	-āticum	-ātica
Ablative	-āticō	-āticīs
Vocative	-āticum	-ātica

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -aticum

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: -atic
- Romanian: -atic, -atec
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: -aticu
- Italian: -atico
  - → Ladin: -atich
  - → Romagnol: -àtic
- Neapolitan: -ateco
- Sicilian: -àticu
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: -adeg, -adg, -âdg
  - Ligurian: -ægo (earlier -aigo)
  - Lombard: -àdeg, -àdig, -àdi
  - Piedmontese: -aj
  - Romagnol: -êdg, -êdgh
- Friulian: -adi
- Romansch: -adi
- Venetan: -adego, -ego
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: -âjo
  Brionnais: -âdze
  
  Fribourgeois: -âdzo
  
  Jurassien: -aidge
- Old French: -age, -aige, -aje (rare)
  - Angevin: -ége, -éje
  - Bourguignon: -aige, -eige
  - Champenois: -age, -aige, -ège
  - Franc-Comtois: -aidge, -aige
  - Middle French: -age (see there for further descendants)
  - Gallo: -aige
  - Lorrain: -èdje, -ège, -êge
  - Picard: -åjhe
  - Poitevin-Saintongeais: -age, -ajhe
  - Walloon: -aedje
  - → Medieval Latin: -āgium
  - → Middle English: -age
    - English: -age
    - Scots: -age
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: -atge
- Gascon: /-ˈadje/
- Old Occitan: -atge (borrowings below may also come from Old French)
  - Occitan: -atge
  - → Aragonese: -ache
  - → Asturian: -axe
  - → Italian: -aggio
  - → Ladin: -aje
  - → Lombard: -agg, -acc
  - → Neapolitan: -aggio
  - → Piedmontese: -age, -agi
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: -age
    - Galician: -axe
    - Portuguese: -agem
  - → Sicilian: -aggiu, -aju
  - → Old Spanish: -age, -aje, -atge
    - Spanish: -aje
  - → Venetan: -ajo
Ibero-Romance:
- Navarro-Aragonese: -azgo
- Old Leonese: -algo
  - Asturian: -algo
  - Leonese: -algo
- Old Galician-Portuguese: -adego
  - Galician: -ádego, -ádigo
  - Portuguese: -ádego, -ádigo
- Old Spanish: -adgo
  - Spanish: -azgo
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: -adigu, -aticu
Borrowings:
- → French: -atique
- → Portuguese: -ático
- → Spanish: -ático

References

Tito Zanardelli (1906) “I nomi locali in -aticus: nell' Emilia e nella Romagna”, in Giacomo de Gregorio, editor, Studi glottologici italiani‎^[1], volume 3, Torino: Ermanno Loescher, pages 1-48.
David G. Patterson (1973) “The Latin suffix -aticu in early Old Spanish”, in Vox Romanica, volume 32, Bern: A. Francke AG Verlag, →DOI, pages 60-65.