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Latin
Etymology
archi- (“arch-”) + ēlēctus (“elect”)
Noun
archiēlēctus m (genitive archiēlēctī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) archbishop-elect (i.e. before formal consecration)
a. 1268, Thomas of Split, Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum Pontificum [History of the Bishops of Salona and Split], published 2006, page 350:Et dominus Hugrinus archielectus cum magna familia equitum et clientum veniens archiepiscopale domicilium habitaturus intravit.- And lord Ugrinus the archbishop-elect arrived with a large household of riders and clients and installed himself in the archbishop's residence.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- "archielectus", 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)
- archielectus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “archielectus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill