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Latin
Etymology 1
From mandō.
Noun
mandātum n (genitive mandātī); second declension
- mandate, command, commandment, commission, charge, order to do something, law
- Synonyms: iussus, ēdictum, ēdictiō, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, praeceptum, imperium
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.268–270:
- Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō
rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet;
ipse haec ferre iubet celerīs mandāta per aurās.”- “The Ruler of the Gods himself – who by his divine will sways heaven and earth – sent me from Olympus to you; he himself bid me to convey these orders by way of the swift-flowing winds.”
(Jupiter has sent Mercury to confront Aeneas in Carthage.)
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:13
nam cum ab infantia sua semper Deum timuerit et mandata eius custodierit non est contristatus contra Deum quod plaga caecitatis evenerit ei- For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,)
- (Medieval Latin) news, notice
- (Medieval Latin) maundy (ceremony of washing the feet)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Etymology 2
Participle
mandātum
- inflection of mandātus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Etymology 3
Verb
mandātum
- accusative supine of mandō
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