delegato
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delegatus, delegati:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Calepinus
- Age:
- Neo-Latin
delegate;
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →delego, delegare, delegavi, delegatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
assign/appoint; delegate/entrust (to); consign; transfer/pass; refer/attribute;
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
Examples
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...eant per totam caveam spectatoribus, si cui favitores delegatos viderint, ut is in cavea pignus capiantur togae; sive..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...suos, quorum maximus numerus fuit, iubet in plostris delegatos Hadrumetum deportari. Naves interim Caesaris onerariae errabundae male vagabantur..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...modo auctores, sed in libros quoque eorum saevitum, delegato triumviris ministerio ut monumenta clarissimorum ingeniorum in comitio..."Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...numquam eram promiscue functus, renuntiavi, ut toto animo delegato mihi officio vacarem. Qua ex causa, cum patronum..."
