dilectus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Perfect passive participle of dīligō (“I esteem, love, select”).
Participle
[edit]dīlēctus (feminine dīlēcta, neuter dīlēctum, superlative dīlēctissimus); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dīlēctus | dīlēcta | dīlēctum | dīlēctī | dīlēctae | dīlēcta | |
Genitive | dīlēctī | dīlēctae | dīlēctī | dīlēctōrum | dīlēctārum | dīlēctōrum | |
Dative | dīlēctō | dīlēctō | dīlēctīs | ||||
Accusative | dīlēctum | dīlēctam | dīlēctum | dīlēctōs | dīlēctās | dīlēcta | |
Ablative | dīlēctō | dīlēctā | dīlēctō | dīlēctīs | |||
Vocative | dīlēcte | dīlēcta | dīlēctum | dīlēctī | dīlēctae | dīlēcta |
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From dīligō (“I esteem, love, select”) + -tus (action noun suffix), literally “selection”.
Noun
[edit]dīlēctus m (genitive dīlēctūs); fourth declension
- selection, choice, distinction
- levy, draft, conscription
- Multis de causis Caesar maiorem Galliae motum expectans per Marcum Silanum, Gaium Antistium Reginum, Titum Sextium legatos dilectum habere instituit(Caesar, De bello gallico, VI 1)
- Caesar, expecting for many reasons a greater commotion in Gaul, resolves to hold a levy by the means of M. Silanus C. Antistius Reginus, and T. Sextius, his lieutenants.
- enlistment
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dīlēctus | dīlēctūs |
Genitive | dīlēctūs | dīlēctuum |
Dative | dīlēctuī | dīlēctibus |
Accusative | dīlēctum | dīlēctūs |
Ablative | dīlēctū | dīlēctibus |
Vocative | dīlēctus | dīlēctūs |
References
[edit]- “dilectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dilectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dilectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere
- (ambiguous) to hold a levy: dilectum habere
- “dilectus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lego, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
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