mandatus

Esperanto

Verb

mandatus

1. conditional of mandati

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mandō (“hand over, deliver”).

Participle

mandātus (feminine mandāta, neuter mandātum); first/second-declension participle

1. put in hand, delivered over, having been handed over.
2. committed, consigned, having been consigned.
3. confided, having been confided.
4. commissioned, having been commissioned.
5. written, having been put in writing.
6. ordered, commanded, having been commanded.
7. entrusted, having been entrusted.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mandātus	mandāta	mandātum		mandātī	mandātae	mandāta
Genitive	mandātī	mandātae	mandātī		mandātōrum	mandātārum	mandātōrum
Dative	mandātō		mandātō		mandātīs
Accusative	mandātum	mandātam	mandātum		mandātōs	mandātās	mandāta
Ablative	mandātō	mandātā	mandātō		mandātīs
Vocative	mandāte	mandāta	mandātum		mandātī	mandātae	mandāta

Descendants

• → Catalan: mandat
• → French: mandat
• → Italian: mandato
• → Portuguese: mandato
• → Romanian: mandat
• → Spanish: mandato

References

• “mandatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mandatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mandatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to execute a commission: mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere