mandatum

See also: mandátum

Latin

Etymology 1

From mandō.

Noun

mandātum n (genitive mandātī); second declension

1. mandate, command, commandment, commission, charge, order to do something, law

   Synonyms: iussus, ēdictum, ēdictiō, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, praeceptum, imperium

   • 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.)

   • 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,)

2. (Medieval Latin) news, notice
3. (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

1. inflection of mandātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 3

Verb

mandātum

1. accusative supine of mandō

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