candidatus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kan.dɪˈdaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kan.diˈdaː.tus]

From candidus (“white, shining, clear”) +‎ -ātus.

candidātus (feminine candidāta, neuter candidātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dressed in white

First/second-declension adjective.

• (dressed in white): albātus

Nominalization of candidātus, since candidates for office wore a white toga.

candidātus m (genitive candidātī); second declension

1. a candidate for the praetorship
2. claimant, aspirant, one striving as a candidate

Second-declension noun.

Rebracketing of the above noun, see -ātus (forming abstract nouns).

candidātus m (genitive candidātūs); fourth declension

2. candidacy

Fourth-declension noun.

• Translingual: Candidatus

• “candidatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candidatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "candidatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “candidatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “candidatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “candidatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin