candidatus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kan.diˈdaː.tus/

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

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

1. Dressed in white.

First/second declension.

• (dressed in white): albātus

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

candidātus m (genitive candidātī); second declension

1. a candidate for the praetorship
2. claimant, aspirant, one striving as a candidate

Second declension.

• English: candidate
• French: candidat, candidate
• Russian: кандида́т (kandidát)
• Spanish: candidato, candidata
• Portuguese: candidato, candidata

candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension

1. candidacy

Fourth declension.

• 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, 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