Pilatus

Etymology

Substantivisation and use as a proper noun of the masculine singular of the adjective pīlātus (“armed with javelins”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈlaː.tus/, [piːˈɫaː.tʊs]

Proper noun

Pīlātus m (genitive Pīlātī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Pontius Pilatus (died AD 37), fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea (AD 26–36)

References

• Pīlātus³ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 5 Pīlātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,180/3”
• “Pīlātus³” on page 1,379/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Pontius Pilatus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la