# loricatus
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* lūrīcātus (Medieval Latin)

### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of lōrīcō.

#### Adjective

lōrīcātus (feminine lōrīcāta, neuter lōrīcātum); first/second-declension adjective
* 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 bibit1920 translation by Richard Mott Gummerehe 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
* (Medieval Latin) wearing a coat of mail
    item alium holosericum luricatum(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    vela loricata melinoporphyra uncinata duo(please add an English translation of this usage example)

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.
| Case | 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