candidatus

See also: Candidatus

Latin

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kan.diˈda.tus/, [kän̪d̪iˈd̪äːt̪us]

From candidus (“white, shining, clear”) +‎ -ātus.

candidātus (feminine candidāta, neuter candidātum); first/second-declension adjective

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
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

From the adjective candidātus, since candidates for office wore a white toga.

candidātus m (genitive candidātī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

→ 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
- → Silesian: kandydat
→ Hunsrik: Kandidatt
→ Italian: candidato
→ Luxembourgish: Kandidat
→ Norwegian Bokmål: kandidat
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kandidat
→ Occitan: candidat
→ Polish: kandydat (learned)
- → Kashubian: kandidat
- → Russian: кандида́т (kandidát)
→ Portuguese: candidato, candidata
→ Romanian: candidat
→ Spanish: candidato, candidata
→ Swedish: kandidat

candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension

Fourth-declension noun.

“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

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.