legatus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of lēgō (“send, despatch”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫeːˈɡaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈɡaː.tus] === Noun === lēgātus m (genitive lēgātī); second declension envoy, ambassador, legate deputy commander, lieutenant ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== lēgātiō lēgātōrius ==== Descendants ==== === Participle === lēgātus (feminine lēgāta, neuter lēgātum); first/second-declension participle sent, despatched, having been sent. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “legatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “legatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "legatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “legatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “legatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “legatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin