electus

Perfect passive participle of ēligō.

ēlēctus (feminine ēlēcta, neuter ēlēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. extracted
2. chosen, elected
   1. (Manichaeism) electus, member of the highest class of believer in Manichaeism, who adhere to an ascetic, vegetarian way of life.
      • Aurelius Augustine, In psalmum 140, 12.

        Tales sunt electi, ut non sint salvandi a Deo, sed salvatores Dei.

        So great are the electi, that they are not to be saved by God, but saviours of God.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Medieval Latin: archielectus

• French: élit, élite (see there for further descendants)
• → English: elect
• → Italian: eletto
• → Portuguese: eleito (semi-learned)
• → Spanish: electo

• “electus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “electus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• electus 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)
• electus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “electus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray