legatorius

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ɫeː.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.ʊs]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [le.ɡaˈtɔː.ri.us]^[1]

Forms

lēgātōrius (feminine lēgātōria, neuter lēgātōrium); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is from lēgātus “envoy, deputy” with the suffix ⟨-tōrius⟩.^[2][3][4] ⟨lēgātus⟩ is from lēgō (“to depute”), from lēx (“law”).^[4][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its source is Cicero's letters to Atticus, lēgātōria prōvincia.^[3][6][4] Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant of or proper to a legate, a deputy; a prōvincia lēgātōria was a commission given to a senator as a legate.^[2][3][6] The TLL doubts the transmitted text of one of Cicero's passages.^[7]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^[3][4]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of or proper to a legate or deputy.^[2][3]

Related words

• lēgātus
• lēgō

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
7. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften