hastati

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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

hastātī

  1. inflection of hastātus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Noun

hastātī m pl (genitive hastātōrum); second declension

  1. (military, plural only) first line of the pre-Marian Roman army (before, respectively, the prī̆ncipēs and the triāriī)

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

References

  • hastati”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hastati”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin