mandatum
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See also: mandátum
Latin
Etymology 1
From mandō.
Noun
mandātum n (genitive mandātī); second declension
- mandate, command, commandment, commission, charge, order to do something, law
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.268–270:
- Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō
rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet;
ipse haec ferre iubet celerīs mandāta per aurās.”- “The Ruler of the Gods himself – who by his divine will sways heaven and earth – sent me from Olympus to you; he himself bid me to convey these orders by way of the swift-flowing winds.”
(Jupiter has sent Mercury to confront Aeneas in Carthage.)
- “The Ruler of the Gods himself – who by his divine will sways heaven and earth – sent me from Olympus to you; he himself bid me to convey these orders by way of the swift-flowing winds.”
- Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:13
- nam cum ab infantia sua semper Deum timuerit et mandata eius custodierit non est contristatus contra Deum quod plaga caecitatis evenerit ei
- For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,)
- (Medieval Latin) news, notice
- (Medieval Latin) maundy (ceremony of washing the feet)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mandātum | mandāta |
Genitive | mandātī | mandātōrum |
Dative | mandātō | mandātīs |
Accusative | mandātum | mandāta |
Ablative | mandātō | mandātīs |
Vocative | mandātum | mandāta |
Descendants
- Catalan: mandat
- Old French: mandé
- → English: maundy
- French: mandat
- Italian: mandato
- Portuguese: mandato
- Romanian: mandat
- Spanish: mandato
Etymology 2
Participle
mandātum
- inflection of mandātus:
Etymology 3
Verb
mandātum
References
- mandatum 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “mandatum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 635