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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of ēligō.
Participle
ēlēctus (feminine ēlēcta, neuter ēlēctum); first/second-declension participle
- extracted
- chosen, elected
- (Manichaeism) electus, member of the highest class of believer in Manichaeism, who adhere to an ascetic, vegetarian way of life.
- Aurelius Augustine, In psalmum 140, 12.
- Tales sunt electi, ut non sint salvandi a Deo, sed salvatores Dei.
- So great are the electi, that they are not to be saved by God, but saviours of God.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “electus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “electus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- electus 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)
- electus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “electus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray