hastati

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hasˈtaː.tiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈtaː.ti]

hastātī m pl (genitive hastātōrum); second declension

1. (military, plural only) first line of the pre-Marian Roman army (before, respectively, the prī̆ncipēs and the triāriī)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:

     Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.

     The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the fortification-workers.

Second-declension noun, plural only.

hastātī

1. inflection of hastātus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

• “hastati”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hastati”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin