LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective

hastātus1

hastātus (feminine hastāta, neuter hastātum)
Classical[hasˈtaː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[asˈtaː.tus]

Meaning

  1. adjectivearmed with a spear
  2. adjectivehastate

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Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativehastātushastātahastātum
genitivehastātīhastātaehastātī
dativehastātōhastātaehastātō
accusativehastātumhastātamhastātum
ablativehastātōhastātāhastātō
vocativehastātehastātahastātum
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativehastātīhastātaehastāta
genitivehastātōrumhastātārumhastātōrum
dativehastātīshastātīshastātīs
accusativehastātōshastātāshastāta
ablativehastātīshastātīshastātīs
vocativehastātīhastātaehastāta

hastātus, a, um, adj. hasta, I. A.,
I. armed with a spear.
I. In gen. (very rare): Bellona, Stat. Th. 2, 718: prima utcumque acies hastata: ceteris praeusta aut brevia tela, Tac. A. 2, 14: currum decem milia hastatorum sequebantur, Curt. 3, 3, 10; 4, 15, 7.—
II. In partic., milit. t. t.: hastāti, ōrum, m., the first line of a Roman army drawn up in order of battle (behind them were the Principes and Triarii): hastati dicti qui primi hastis pugnabant, Varr. L. L. 5, § 89 Müll.: hastati spargunt hastas, Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 287 Vahl.); so Liv. 8, 8, 6; 22, 5; Veg. Mil. 1, 20 al.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—The hastati were divided into ten ordines (companies), Ov. F. 3, 128.—Hence,
B. Transf.: primus, secundus, etc., ordo hastatus, and more freq. absol.: primus, secundus, etc., hastatus, the first, second, etc., company of hastati: in eo exercitu miles gregarius fui: tertio anno virtutis causa, mihi T. Quintius decimum ordinem hastatum assignavit, i. e. made me captain of the tenth (last) company, Liv. 42, 34, 5: cum signifer primi hastati signum non posset movere loco, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77; cf. id. ib. 2, 31, 67: signifer secundi hastati, Liv. 26, 5 fin.—Hence, transf.,
2. (Ellipt. for centurio ordinis hastati primus, secundus, etc., hastatus.) The captain of the first, second, etc., company, Veg. Mil. 2, 8: Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato, late first centurio (i. e. who had been discharged as first centurio, and then served as evocatus), Caes. B. C. 1, 46, 4.—
b. Κατʼ ἐξοχήν, hastatus, i, m., the captain of the first company, Flor. 1, 18; Inscr. Orell. 3455.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin hastātus From hasta (“spear”) + -ātus.

Descendants
  • Englishhastate
  • Italianastato
  • Spanishastado

In English words that came into English from hastātus

  • hastatehastātus
noun · masculinesecond declension
hastātus2
hastātus m (genitive hastātī)
Classical[hasˈtaː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[asˈtaː.tus]

Meaning

  1. mainlya maniple, company of the hastātī
    Primus hastātusThe first company of hastātī
  2. (mainly with primus, secundus,..., from the ellipsis of "centuriō ōrdinis (prīimī, secundī,...) hastātī" ("officer of the (first, second,...) hastātus")) a captain of an hastātus
    Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato legionis XIIII, qui propter eximiam virtutem ex inferioribus ordinibus in eum locum pervenerat; [...]In the first contest, about seventy of us died; of them was Q. Fulginius serving as the centurion of the first company of hastati of the fourteenth legion. He had achieved this rank and worked his way from the lower orders of the army through his high valour.c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili I.46

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativehastātushastātī
genitivehastātīhastātōrum
dativehastātōhastātīs
accusativehastātumhastātōs
ablativehastātōhastātīs
vocativehastātehastātī

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin hastātus From hasta (“spear”) + -ātus.

Quick answers

What does hastātus mean in Latin?
hastātus, a adjective, means “armed with a spear; hastate”.
How do you pronounce hastātus?
In classical Latin, [hasˈtaː.tʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [asˈtaː.tus].