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Latin
Etymology
From pullus + -ātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pullātus (feminine pullāta, neuter pullātum); first/second-declension adjective
- clothed in dirty or black clothes
- (figuratively) of the common people
- (substantively, in the plural) the common people
121 C.E., Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, book II (Augustus). 44:Maritis e plebe proprios ordines assignauit, praetextatis cuneum suum, et proximum paedagogis, sanxitque ne quis pullatorum media cavea sederet.- He (Augustus) gave married man of the plebs their own seats, to boys wearing the praetexta a single section and their teachers the one next to it; he also passed a law aimed at debarring anyone of the common people to sit in the middle rows of the theater.
- dressed in mourning clothes, mourning
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “pullatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pullatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "pullatus", 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)
- pullatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pullatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016