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archielectus

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Latin

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Etymology

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archi- (arch-) +‎ ēlēctus (elect)

Noun

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archiēlēctus m (genitive archiēlēctī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) archbishop-elect (i.e. before formal consecration)
    • a. 1268, Thomas of Split, Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum Pontificum [History of the Bishops of Salona and Split], published 2006, page 350:
      Et dominus Hugrinus archielectus cum magna familia equitum et clientum veniens archiepiscopale domicilium habitaturus intravit.
      And lord Ugrinus the archbishop-elect arrived with a large household of riders and clients and installed himself in the archbishop's residence.

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative archiēlēctus archiēlēctī
genitive archiēlēctī archiēlēctōrum
dative archiēlēctō archiēlēctīs
accusative archiēlēctum archiēlēctōs
ablative archiēlēctō archiēlēctīs
vocative archiēlēcte archiēlēctī

References

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  • archielectus 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)
  • archielectus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “archielectus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill