Etymograph

English

pacated

Pacated comes from Latin pācātus ‘made peaceful, quieted, pacified, settled,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-1‘to join, to attach’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂ḱ-s1‘peace’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāks1‘peace’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāx2‘peace’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpācō2‘to make peaceful, pacify’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpācātus3‘made peaceful, quieted, pacified, settled, subdued, having been pacified’
  7. Englishtodaypacated3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin pax
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin pacatus
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English pacated

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ḱ-Wiktionary, Latin pax‘to join, to attach’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂ḱ-sWiktionary, Latin pax‘peace’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāksWiktionary, Latin pax‘peace’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāxWiktionary, Latin pacatus‘peace’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpācōWiktionary, Latin pacatus‘to make peaceful, pacify’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpācātusWiktionary, English pacated‘made peaceful, quieted, pacified, settled, subdued, having been pacified’
  7. EnglishtodaypacatedWiktionary, English pacated

Formed from ed

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’

fair, fang, fay, gaffe, 7 more

through Latin pāx ‘peace’

peace, pace, repay, pax, pacifist, pogue, pacifism, 4 more

through Latin pācō ‘to make peaceful, pacify’

pact, 2 more

Today it means

adj pacified, placated

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pacated”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin pax, Latin pacatus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- / pacated

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