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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1013.lēgātus on page 1013
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lēgātus ambassador
lēgātus is a Latin Noun that primarily means ambassador.
Definitions for lēgātus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
ambassador, deputy
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
An ambassador, envoy, representative, delegate.
- 2
An assistant to a general or provincial governor, staff-officer, deputy, lieutenant, legate.
- 3
A deputy of the emperor, esp. one appointed as governor of an imperial province; (in full ~us (Augusti) pro praetore.
Sentences with lēgātus
Latin to English
Adventus legatus augeo potius timor civitas quam minuo.Compare The arrival of the ambassadors increased rather than diminished the fear of the state.
Legatus sui huc revertor dico.Compare The ambassadors said they would return hither.
Eo, et post paucus dies alius decem legatus sui cum adduco.Compare They went, and a few days afterwards brought ten other ambassador with them.
Legatus ad is venio oro, ut sui ignosco suusque vita consulo.Compare Ambassadors came to him to beg that he would forgive them, and take some thought for their life.
Declension table for lēgātus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | lēgātus | lēgātī |
| Gen. | lēgātī | lēgātōrum |
| Dat. | lēgātō | lēgātīs |
| Acc. | lēgātum | lēgātōs |
| Voc. | lēgāte | lēgātī |
| Abl. | lēgātō | lēgātīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 479.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1013.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "lēgātus, lēgātī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/legatus-legati.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 479.on page 479
