candidatus
See also: Candidatus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kan.diˈdaː.tus/, [kän̪d̪ɪˈd̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kan.diˈda.tus/, [kän̪d̪iˈd̪äːt̪us]
Etymology 1
From candidus (“white, shining, clear”) + -ātus.
Adjective
candidātus (feminine candidāta, neuter candidātum); first/second-declension adjective
- Dressed in white.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | candidātus | candidāta | candidātum | candidātī | candidātae | candidāta | |
Genitive | candidātī | candidātae | candidātī | candidātōrum | candidātārum | candidātōrum | |
Dative | candidātō | candidātō | candidātīs | ||||
Accusative | candidātum | candidātam | candidātum | candidātōs | candidātās | candidāta | |
Ablative | candidātō | candidātā | candidātō | candidātīs | |||
Vocative | candidāte | candidāta | candidātum | candidātī | candidātae | candidāta |
Synonyms
- (dressed in white): albātus
Etymology 2
From the adjective candidātus, since candidates for office wore a white toga.
Noun
candidātus m (genitive candidātī); second declension
- a candidate for the praetorship
- claimant, aspirant, one striving as a candidate
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | candidātus | candidātī |
Genitive | candidātī | candidātōrum |
Dative | candidātō | candidātīs |
Accusative | candidātum | candidātōs |
Ablative | candidātō | candidātīs |
Vocative | candidāte | candidātī |
Descendants
- Asturian: candidatu
- Catalan: candidat
- → Danish: kandidat
- English: candidate
- French: candidat (see there for further descendants), candidate
- Galician: candidato
- → German: Kandidat
- Hunsrik: Kandidatt
- Italian: candidato
- Luxembourgish: Kandidat
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kandidat
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kandidat
- Occitan: candidat
- → Polish: kandydat
- Russian: кандида́т (kandidát)
- Portuguese: candidato, candidata
- Spanish: candidato, candidata
- → Swedish: kandidat
Noun
candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | candidātus | candidātūs |
Genitive | candidātūs | candidātuum |
Dative | candidātuī | candidātibus |
Accusative | candidātum | candidātūs |
Ablative | candidātū | candidātibus |
Vocative | candidātus | candidātūs |
References
- “candidatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “candidatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- candidatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- candidatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “candidatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “candidatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
- Latin 4-syllable words
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- Latin terms suffixed with -atus (adjective)
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension