archielectus

Latin

Etymology

archi- (“arch-”) +‎ ēlēctus (“elect”)

Noun

archiēlēctus m (genitive archiēlēctī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) archbishop-elect (i.e. before formal consecration)
   • a. 1268, Thomas of Split, Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum Pontificum [History of the Bishops of Salona and Split], published 2006, page 350:

     Et dominus Hugrinus archielectus cum magna familia equitum et clientum veniens archiepiscopale domicilium habitaturus intravit.

     And lord Ugrinus the archbishop-elect arrived with a large household of riders and clients and installed himself in the archbishop's residence.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	archiēlēctus	archiēlēctī
Genitive	archiēlēctī	archiēlēctōrum
Dative	archiēlēctō	archiēlēctīs
Accusative	archiēlēctum	archiēlēctōs
Ablative	archiēlēctō	archiēlēctīs
Vocative	archiēlēcte	archiēlēctī

References

• archielectus 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)
• archielectus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “archielectus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill