candidatus

See also: Candidatus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kan.diˈdaː.tus/, [kän̪d̪ɪˈd̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kan.diˈda.tus/, [kän̪d̪iˈd̪äːt̪us]

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. Dressed in white.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	candidātus	candidāta	candidātum		candidātī	candidātae	candidāta
Genitive	candidātī	candidātae	candidātī		candidātōrum	candidātārum	candidātōrum
Dative	candidātō		candidātō		candidātīs
Accusative	candidātum	candidātam	candidātum		candidātōs	candidātās	candidāta
Ablative	candidātō	candidātā	candidātō		candidātīs
Vocative	candidāte	candidāta	candidātum		candidātī	candidātae	candidāta

Synonyms

• (dressed in white): albātus

Etymology 2

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

Noun

candidātus m (genitive candidātī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	candidātus	candidātī
Genitive	candidātī	candidātōrum
Dative	candidātō	candidātīs
Accusative	candidātum	candidātōs
Ablative	candidātō	candidātīs
Vocative	candidāte	candidātī

Descendants

• → Asturian: candidatu
• → Byzantine Greek: κανδιδάτος (kandidátos)
• → Catalan: candidat
• → Danish: kandidat
• → English: candidate
• → French: candidat (see there for further descendants), candidate
• → Galician: candidato
• → German: Kandidat, Candidat
  • → Silesian: kandydat
• → Hunsrik: Kandidatt
• → Italian: candidato
• → Luxembourgish: Kandidat
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kandidat
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kandidat
• → Occitan: candidat
• → Polish: kandydat (learned)
  • → Kashubian: kandidat
  • → Russian: кандида́т (kandidát)
• → Portuguese: candidato, candidata
• → Romanian: candidat
• → Spanish: candidato, candidata
• → Swedish: kandidat

Noun

candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension

1. candidacy

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	candidātus	candidātūs
Genitive	candidātūs	candidātuum
Dative	candidātuī	candidātibus
Accusative	candidātum	candidātūs
Ablative	candidātū	candidātibus
Vocative	candidātus	candidātūs

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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