candidatus
See also: Candidatus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kan.dɪˈdaː.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kan̪.d̪iˈd̪aː.t̪us]
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.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | candidātus | candidāta | candidātum | candidātī | candidātae | candidāta | |
| genitive | candidātī | candidātae | candidātī | candidātōrum | candidātārum | candidātōrum | |
| dative | candidātō | candidātae | 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.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | candidātus | candidātī |
| genitive | candidātī | candidātōrum |
| dative | candidātō | candidātīs |
| accusative | candidātum | candidātōs |
| ablative | candidātō | candidātīs |
| vocative | candidāte | candidātī |
Descendants
- → Asturian: candidatu
- → Byzantine Greek: κανδιδάτος (kandidátos)
- → Catalan: candidat
- → Danish: kandidat
- → English: candidate
- → French: candidat (see there for further descendants), candidate
- → Galician: candidato
- → German: Kandidat, Candidat (pre-1901)
- → Silesian: kandydat
- → Hunsrik: Kandidatt
- → Italian: candidato
- → Luxembourgish: Kandidat
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kandidat
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kandidat
- → Occitan: candidat
- → Polish: kandydat (learned)
- → Portuguese: candidato, candidata
- → Romanian: candidat
- → Spanish: candidato, candidata
- → Swedish: kandidat
Noun
candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | candidātus | candidātūs |
| genitive | candidātūs | candidātuum |
| dative | candidātuī | candidātibus |
| accusative | candidātum | candidātūs |
| ablative | candidātū | candidātibus |
| vocative | candidātus | candidātūs |
Descendants
- Translingual: Candidatus
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