loricatus

Latin

FWOTD – 19 February 2022

Alternative forms

• lūrīcātus (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /loː.riːˈkaː.tus/, [ɫ̪oːriːˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo.riˈka.tus/, [loriˈkäːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of lōrīcō.

Adjective

lōrīcātus (feminine lōrīcāta, neuter lōrīcātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. wearing a lōrīca, harnessed, clad in mail
   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 104:

     in collibus arentibus sine ullis inpedimentis victi exercitus reliquias trahens inopiam umoris loricatus tulit et, quotiens aquae fuerat occasio, novissimus bibit

     • 1920 translation by Richard Mott Gummere

       he marched over sun-baked hills, dragging the remains of a beaten army and with no train of supplies, undergoing lack of water and wearing a heavy suit of armour; always the last to drink of the few springs which they chanced to find

2. (Medieval Latin) wearing a coat of mail

   item alium holosericum luricatum

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   vela loricata melinoporphyra uncinata duo

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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lōrīcātus	lōrīcāta	lōrīcātum		lōrīcātī	lōrīcātae	lōrīcāta
genitive	lōrīcātī	lōrīcātae	lōrīcātī		lōrīcātōrum	lōrīcātārum	lōrīcātōrum
dative	lōrīcātō	lōrīcātae	lōrīcātō		lōrīcātīs
accusative	lōrīcātum	lōrīcātam	lōrīcātum		lōrīcātōs	lōrīcātās	lōrīcāta
ablative	lōrīcātō	lōrīcātā	lōrīcātō		lōrīcātīs
vocative	lōrīcāte	lōrīcāta	lōrīcātum		lōrīcātī	lōrīcātae	lōrīcāta

Synonyms

• (clad in mail): cataphractus

Derived terms

• lōrīcāta
• lōrīcātus

Descendants

• English: loricate, loricated

References

• “lōrĭcātus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Loricatus, Luricatus 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)
• lōrīcātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 922/1.
• “lōrīcātus” on page 1,044/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “loricatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 621

Etymology 2

Substantivisations of the masculine forms of the adjective lōrīcātus in elliptical use for monachus lōrīcātus (“mail-clad monk”), eques lōrīcātus (“mail-clad knight”), etc.

Noun

lōrīcātus m (genitive lōrīcātī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (Christianity) a monk penitent who practises mortification of the flesh by wearing a chainmail shirt next to the skin (i.e., without padding)
2. a warrior clad in mail, an armoured knight

   Synonyms: cataphractēs, cataphractus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lōrīcātus	lōrīcātī
genitive	lōrīcātī	lōrīcātōrum
dative	lōrīcātō	lōrīcātīs
accusative	lōrīcātum	lōrīcātōs
ablative	lōrīcātō	lōrīcātīs
vocative	lōrīcāte	lōrīcātī

References

• “loricatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Loricati 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “loricatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 621

Further reading

• S. Dominicus Loricatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia