loricatus

• lūrīcātus (Medieval Latin)

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

Perfect passive participle of lōrīcō.

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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First/second-declension adjective.

• (clad in mail): cataphractus

• lōrīcāta
• lōrīcātus

• English: loricate, loricated

• “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

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

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

Second-declension noun.

• “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

• S. Dominicus Loricatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia