noun · neutersecond declension
mandātum
mandātum n (genitive mandātī)
Meaning
- mandate, command, commandment, commission, charge, order to do something, law
Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet; ipse haec ferre iubet celerīs mandāta per aurās.” “The Ruler of the Gods himself – who by his divine will sways heaven and earth – sent me from Olympus to you; he himself bid me to convey these orders by way of the swift-flowing winds.”
(Jupiter has sent Mercury to confront Aeneas in Carthage.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.268–2704th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:13
For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,) - Medieval Latinnews, notice
- Medieval Latinmaundy (ceremony of washing the feet)
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
id quod iubēturmandātum -ī (n) — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 11
id quod Deus facere iubetmandātum -ī (n) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 3, 17, 20
id quod iubētur, praeceptummandātum -ī (n) — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 12, 18
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mandātum | mandāta |
| genitive | mandātī | mandātōrum |
| dative | mandātō | mandātīs |
| accusative | mandātum | mandāta |
| ablative | mandātō | mandātīs |
| vocative | mandātum | mandāta |
mandātum, i, n., v. 1. mando
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
mandātum ī, n
P. n. of 1 mando, a charge, commission, injunction, command, order : mandatum curasse, have performed the commission : a senatu dantur mandata legatis, ut, etc.: ad eos Caesaris mandata deferre, Cs.: nostra exhaurire: deferre, deliver : frangere, H.: publicis mandatis servire: dare alcui mandata ad alqm: occulta mandata, Ta.: dabit mandata reverti, command him to return , O.—In law, a trust, agreement gratuitously to transact for another : mandati constitutum iudicium, i. e. for breach of trust .
Origins
From mandō.
Descendants
- Catalanmandat
- Englishmandate
- Frenchmandat
- Romanianmandatfrom French mandat
- Italianmandato
- Englishmaundyfrom Old French mandé
- Portuguesemandado
- Portuguesemandato
- Spanishmandato
- Welshmandadfrom English mandate