Vates Definition

noun

A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.

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Origin of Vates

  • From Latin vātēs, from Proto-Indo-European *wāt-; cognate with Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”) (Gaulish ουατεις, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *wōd- (“mad”) (Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic (woþs, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”).

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Vates Sentence Examples

  • It was also used by a class of bards or itinerant soothsayers known by the name of vates, of whom the most famous was one Marcius, and in the "Fescennine verses," as sung at harvest-homes and weddings, which gave expression to the coarse gaiety of the people and to their strong tendency to personal raillery and satiric comment.

  • With the completion of the three books of Odes he cast aside for a time the office of the vates, and resumed that of the critical spectator of human life, but in the spirit of a moralist rather than a satirist.

  • The officials of the college were the magister, the praesul, and the vates (the leaders in dance and song) .

  • D'Arbois de Jubainville maintains that in Gaul the three classes of druids, vates and gutuatri, corresponded more or less to the pontifices, augurs and flamens of ancient Rome.

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