donatus

1. 1.

   Roman grammarian whose textbook on Latin grammar was used throughout the Middle Ages (fourth century)

   SynonymsAelius Donatus

   Broadergrammarian

Other forms of donatus

plural

donatuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about donatus

What does donatus mean?

donatus means "Roman grammarian whose textbook on Latin grammar was used throughout the Middle Ages (fourth century)".

How many syllables are in donatus?

donatus has 3 syllables: do-na-tus. The stress falls on "do".

What is another word for donatus?

Close synonyms include Aelius Donatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is donatus a common word?

donatus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.