sultanus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === soldanus === Etymology === Borrowing from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān). Attested from the 12th century in the form soldanus as a title of Saladin. === Noun === sultanus m (genitive sultanī); second declension (Medieval Latin, New Latin) sultan ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== sultanātus === References === "sultanus", 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) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “sultanus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1004