candidato
Dictionary entries
- Entry →candido, candidare, candidavi, candidatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Religion
make glittering/bright; make white;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.sg. fut. act. imp. 2ndsg. fut. act. imp. 3rd - Entry →candidatus, candidati:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
candidate (office) (white toga); aspirant/office seeker; one who strives for;
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →candidatus, candidata, candidatum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dressed in white/whitened clothes;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illum amicum vocasti quomodo omnes candidatos 'bonos viros' dicimus, quomodo obvios, si nomen non succurrit, 'dominos' salutamus..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...suffragatione, sed ne mater quidem nisi pro bono candidato ualuisset. 4. Harum contemplatione uirtutum filium gere quasi sinu..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...patri luctum, marito diuortium attulit, magistratui odium, candidato repulsam. 5. Peior est quam luxuria, quoniam illa sua uoluptate..."de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...enim is solus rei publicae prodest, qui candidatos extrahit et tuetur reos et de pace belloque censet..."Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...uinum olim et ipse petere. De quaesturae quodam candidato inter causas suffragationis suae posuit, quod pater eius frigidam..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...minus exprobrat quam potest, ut idem dicenti candidato "semper domum tuam colui", cum posset palam negare, "credo", inquit..."VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...nomen omni lege maius est; tribunos deducimus, candidatos ferimus; ius nobis vitae necisque concessum est. si non fecerit..."Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Aemilium Q. Fabium Ser. Sulpicium Galbam, ueteres candidatos, et ab repulsis eo magis debitum, quia primo negatus erat..."
