legatus

Perfect passive participle of lēgō (“send, despatch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leːˈɡaː.tus/, [ɫeːˈɡaː.tʊs]

lēgātus m (genitive lēgātī); second declension

1. envoy, ambassador, legate
2. deputy
3. commander, lieutenant
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.

     Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.

Second declension.

• lēgātiō
• lēgātōrius

• → English: legate
• French: légat
• Italian: legato
• Portuguese: legado
• → Russian: легат (legat)

lēgātus m (feminine lēgāta, neuter lēgātum); first/second declension

1. sent, despatched, having been sent.

First/second declension.

• legatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• legatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• legatus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legatus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin