praelatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of praeferō (“to carry forth, I set before”).
Surface analysis: prae- (“before, in front”) + lātus (“borne, carried”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /prae̯ˈlaː.tus/, [präe̯ˈɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /preˈla.tus/, [preˈläːt̪us]
Participle
praelātus (feminine praelāta, neuter praelātum); first/second-declension participle
- carried
- offered, presented
- preferred
- anticipated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | praelātus | praelāta | praelātum | praelātī | praelātae | praelāta | |
Genitive | praelātī | praelātae | praelātī | praelātōrum | praelātārum | praelātōrum | |
Dative | praelātō | praelātō | praelātīs | ||||
Accusative | praelātum | praelātam | praelātum | praelātōs | praelātās | praelāta | |
Ablative | praelātō | praelātā | praelātō | praelātīs | |||
Vocative | praelāte | praelāta | praelātum | praelātī | praelātae | praelāta |
Noun
praelātus m (genitive praelātūs); fourth declension
- (Medieval Latin) prelate
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | praelātus | praelātūs |
Genitive | praelātūs | praelātuum |
Dative | praelātuī | praelātibus |
Accusative | praelātum | praelātūs |
Ablative | praelātū | praelātibus |
Vocative | praelātus | praelātūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: prelat
- Old French: prelat
- English: prelate
- French: prélat
- Old Portuguese: prelado
- Galician: prelado
- Portuguese: prelado
- Italian: prelato
- Russian: прелат (prelat)
- Spanish: prelado
References
- “praelatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praelatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praelatus 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)
- praelatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- praelatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016