legato

legato is a Latin form of lego, meaning “read; gather, choose”.

It can also be a form of legatus, “envoy, deputy, commander”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or perfect passive participle ablative singular masculine or perfect passive participle dative singular neuter.

Found 117 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.17.7: Id ea de causa faciebat quod cum tanta multitudine hostium, praesertim eo absente qui summam imperii teneret, nisi aequo loco aut oportunitate aliqua data legato dimicandum non existimabat.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 10.67.1: Legato Sauromatae regis; cum sua sponte Nicaeae, ubi me invenerat, biduo substitisset, longiorem moram faciendam, do …

All forms of lego (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.