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Latin
Etymology
From prī̆nceps + -ātus.
Noun
prī̆ncipātus m (genitive prī̆ncipātūs); fourth declension
- first place
- rule
- leadership
- supremacy
- (Late Latin) sovereignty
- (Late Latin) principality
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “principatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “principatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- principatus 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)
- principatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be considered the foremost orator: eloquentiae principatum tenere
- to occupy the leading position: principatum tenere, obtinere
- deposed from one's high position: de principatu deiectus (B. G. 7. 63)
- to contend with some one for the pre-eminence: contendere cum aliquo de principatu (Nep. Arist. 1)
- to be deposed from one's leading position: principatu deici (B. G. 7. 63)
- “principatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- principatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- principatus in Deferrari, R. J. (Roy Joseph)., McGuiness, I., Barry, M. Inviolata (1948). A lexicon of St. Thomas Aquinas based on the Summa theologica and selected passages of his other works. Washington: Catholic University of America Press.