hastatus

Latin

From hasta (“spear”) +‎ -ātus.

hastātus (feminine hastāta, neuter hastātum); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	hastātus	hastāta	hastātum	hastātī	hastātae	hastāta
genitive	hastātī	hastātae	hastātī	hastātōrum	hastātārum	hastātōrum
dative	hastātō	hastātae	hastātō	hastātīs
accusative	hastātum	hastātam	hastātum	hastātōs	hastātās	hastāta
ablative	hastātō	hastātā	hastātō	hastātīs
vocative	hastāte	hastāta	hastātum	hastātī	hastātae	hastāta

hastātus m (genitive hastātī); second declension

(mainly with primus, secundus,...) a maniple, company of the hastātī
Primus hastātus ― The first company of hastātī
(mainly with primus, secundus,..., from the ellipsis of "centuriō ōrdinis (prīimī, secundī,...) hastātī" ("officer of the (first, second,...) hastātus")) a captain of an hastātus
- c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili I.46:
  Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato 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 the centurion of the first company 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.

“hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“hastatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
hastatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.