hastatus

From hasta (“spear”) +‎ -ātus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hasˈtaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈt̪aː.t̪us]

hastātus (feminine hastāta, neuter hastātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. armed with a spear
2. (botany, of leaves) hastate

First/second-declension adjective.

• hastātī

• hasta

• English: hastate
• Italian: astato
• Spanish: astado

hastātus m (genitive hastātī); second declension

1. (mainly with primus, secundus,...) a maniple, company of the hastātī

   Primus hastātus ― The first company of hastātī

2. (mainly with primus, secundus,..., from the ellipsis of "centuriō ōrdinis (prīimī, secundī,...) hastātī" ("officer of the (first, second,...) hastātus")) a captain of an hastātus
   • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili I.46:

     Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato legionis XIIII, qui propter eximiam virtutem ex inferioribus ordinibus in eum locum pervenerat; [...]

     In the first contest, about seventy of us died; of them was Q. Fulginius serving as the centurion of the first company of hastati of the fourteenth legion. He had achieved this rank and worked his way from the lower orders of the army through his high valour.

Second-declension noun.

• pīlus
• prīnceps
• prīncipēs
• triāriī

• “hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hastatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.