loricatus

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Latin

FWOTD – 19 February 2022

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of lōrīcō.

Adjective

lōrīcātus (feminine lōrīcāta, neuter lōrīcātum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wearing a lōrīca, harnessed, clad in mail
    • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 104:
      in collibus arentibus sine ullis inpedimentis victi exercitus reliquias trahens inopiam umoris loricatus tulit et, quotiens aquae fuerat occasio, novissimus bibit
      • 1920 translation by Richard Mott Gummere
        he marched over sun-baked hills, dragging the remains of a beaten army and with no train of supplies, undergoing lack of water and wearing a heavy suit of armour; always the last to drink of the few springs which they chanced to find
  2. (Medieval Latin) wearing a coat of mail
    item alium holosericum luricatum
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    vela loricata melinoporphyra uncinata duo
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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative lōrīcātus lōrīcāta lōrīcātum lōrīcātī lōrīcātae lōrīcāta
genitive lōrīcātī lōrīcātae lōrīcātī lōrīcātōrum lōrīcātārum lōrīcātōrum
dative lōrīcātō lōrīcātae lōrīcātō lōrīcātīs
accusative lōrīcātum lōrīcātam lōrīcātum lōrīcātōs lōrīcātās lōrīcāta
ablative lōrīcātō lōrīcātā lōrīcātō lōrīcātīs
vocative lōrīcāte lōrīcāta lōrīcātum lōrīcātī lōrīcātae lōrīcāta
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: loricate, loricated

References

Etymology 2

Substantivisations of the masculine forms of the adjective lōrīcātus in elliptical use for monachus lōrīcātus (“mail-clad monk”), eques lōrīcātus (“mail-clad knight”), etc.

Noun

lōrīcātus m (genitive lōrīcātī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. (Christianity) a monk penitent who practises mortification of the flesh by wearing a chainmail shirt next to the skin (i.e., without padding)
  2. a warrior clad in mail, an armoured knight
    Synonyms: cataphractēs, cataphractus
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lōrīcātus lōrīcātī
genitive lōrīcātī lōrīcātōrum
dative lōrīcātō lōrīcātīs
accusative lōrīcātum lōrīcātōs
ablative lōrīcātō lōrīcātīs
vocative lōrīcāte lōrīcātī

References

  • “loricatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Loricati 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)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “loricatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 621

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