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mandatus
mandatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of mandō (“hand over, deliver”).
Participle
mandātus m (feminine mandāta, neuter mandātum); first/second declension
- put in hand, delivered over, having been handed over.
- committed, consigned, having been consigned.
- confided, having been confided.
- commissioned, having been commissioned.
- written, having been put in writing.
- ordered, commanded, having been commanded.
- entrusted, having been entrusted.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mandātus | mandāta | mandātum | mandātī | mandātae | mandāta | |
| genitive | mandātī | mandātae | mandātī | mandātōrum | mandātārum | mandātōrum | |
| dative | mandātō | mandātō | mandātīs | ||||
| accusative | mandātum | mandātam | mandātum | mandātōs | mandātās | mandāta | |
| ablative | mandātō | mandātā | mandātō | mandātīs | |||
| vocative | mandāte | mandāta | mandātum | mandātī | mandātae | mandāta | |
References
- mandatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mandatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mandatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare
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(ambiguous) to execute a commission: mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere
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(ambiguous) to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare