Fromhasta(“spear”) +-ātus.
hastātus (femininehastāta,neuterhastātum);first/second-declension adjective
- armed with aspear
- (botany, of leaves)hastate
First/second-declension adjective.
hastātus m (genitivehastātī);second declension
- (mainly withprimus,secundus,...) amaniple,company of thehastātī
- Primus hastātus ―The first company of hastātī
- (mainly withprimus,secundus,..., from theellipsis of "centuriō ōrdinis (prīimī, secundī,...)hastātī" ("officer of the (first, second,...)hastātus")) a captain of anhastātus
c. 48BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello CiviliI.46:
- Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primohastato legionis XIIII, qui propter eximiam virtutem ex inferioribus ordinibus in eum locum pervenerat; [...]
- In the first contest, about seventy of us died; of them was Q. Fulginius serving as thecenturion of the firstcompany of hastati of the fourteenth legion. He had achieved this rank and worked his way from the lower orders of the army through his high valour.
Second-declension noun.
- “hastatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hastatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hastatus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
