hastatus

Latin

Etymology

From hasta (“spear”) +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hasˈtaː.tus/, [häs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈta.tus/, [äsˈt̪äːt̪us]

Adjective

hastātus (feminine hastāta, neuter hastātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. armed with a spear
2. (botany, of leaves) hastate

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hastātus	hastāta	hastātum		hastātī	hastātae	hastāta
genitive	hastātī	hastātae	hastātī		hastātōrum	hastātārum	hastātōrum
dative	hastātō	hastātae	hastātō		hastātīs
accusative	hastātum	hastātam	hastātum		hastātōs	hastātās	hastāta
ablative	hastātō	hastātā	hastātō		hastātīs
vocative	hastāte	hastāta	hastātum		hastātī	hastātae	hastāta

Derived terms

• hastātī

Related terms

• hasta

Descendants

• English: hastate
• Italian: astato
• Spanish: astado

Noun

hastātus m (genitive hastātī); second declension

1. (mainly with primus, secundus,...) a maniple, company of the hastātī
   • Primus hastātus ― The 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
   • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili I.46:

     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.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hastātus	hastātī
genitive	hastātī	hastātōrum
dative	hastātō	hastātīs
accusative	hastātum	hastātōs
ablative	hastātō	hastātīs
vocative	hastāte	hastātī

See also

• pīlus
• prīnceps
• prīncipēs
• triāriī

References

• “hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hastatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.