constitutus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cōnstituō (“to set up, constitute”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.stɪˈtuː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.stiˈtuː.tus]

Participle

cōnstitūtus (feminine cōnstitūta, neuter cōnstitūtum); first/second-declension participle

1. set up, arranged, constituted, having been set up
2. fixed, established, having been established
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.24:

     Quamquam, quid ego tē invītem, […] ; cui iam sciam pactam et cōnstitūtam cum Mānliō diem; […] .

     And yet, why should I invite you, […] ; when now I know that a day has been agreed upon and fixed with Manlius; […] .

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnstitūtus	cōnstitūta	cōnstitūtum		cōnstitūtī	cōnstitūtae	cōnstitūta
genitive	cōnstitūtī	cōnstitūtae	cōnstitūtī		cōnstitūtōrum	cōnstitūtārum	cōnstitūtōrum
dative	cōnstitūtō	cōnstitūtae	cōnstitūtō		cōnstitūtīs
accusative	cōnstitūtum	cōnstitūtam	cōnstitūtum		cōnstitūtōs	cōnstitūtās	cōnstitūta
ablative	cōnstitūtō	cōnstitūtā	cōnstitūtō		cōnstitūtīs
vocative	cōnstitūte	cōnstitūta	cōnstitūtum		cōnstitūtī	cōnstitūtae	cōnstitūta

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s

Proto-Italic *status

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Italic *statujō

Proto-Italic *statuō

Latin statuō

Latin cōnstituō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cōnstitūtus

From cōnstituō + -tus (forming ation nouns).

Pronunciation

• cōnstitūtus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.stɪˈtuː.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.stiˈtuː.tus]
• cōnstitūtūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.stɪˈtuː.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.stiˈtuː.tus]

Noun

cōnstitūtus m (genitive cōnstitūtūs); fourth declension

1. a meeting

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnstitūtus	cōnstitūtūs
genitive	cōnstitūtūs	cōnstitūtuum
dative	cōnstitūtuī	cōnstitūtibus
accusative	cōnstitūtum	cōnstitūtūs
ablative	cōnstitūtū	cōnstitūtibus
vocative	cōnstitūtus	cōnstitūtūs

References

• “constĭtūtus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constĭtūtus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cōnstitūtus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “constĭtūtus / constĭtūtŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at the appointed time: ad diem constitutam