constitutus

Latin

Etymology

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

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, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.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

Noun

cōnstitūtus m (genitive cōnstitūtūs); fourth declension

1. 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

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