pătētus

I. subst.: pătētae, ārum, f. (sc. caryotae), a kind of dates (which, when they burst open, look as if they had been trodden upon), Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 18, 108; id. Tard. 4, 8, 126.