incorporatus

Incorporatus is a Latin participle meaning "incorporated" or "made into a body." Derived from the verb incorporare, it has appeared in classical, medieval, and modern scholarly Latin to describe persons, entities, or substances united with a larger whole. As an adjective, incorporatus typically agrees with a noun and occurs in legal charters, ecclesiastical records, and Latin translations to convey the sense of incorporation.

In historical usage, the term is commonly found in charters and legal summaries to indicate that a town, guild, monastery, or other unit has been constituted as a corporate entity within a broader jurisdiction. It also appears in Latin glossaries to render the English adjective "incorporated," helping to express formal status in documents.

In modern scholarly practice, incorporatus is used chiefly in Latin texts or translations to indicate incorporation, rather than as a live technical term in contemporary jurisprudence. In scientific or technical writing, when Latin is used to describe a component integrated into a composite, the word may appear as a direct translation of "incorporated," but it is not a specialized term with a fixed definition in current practice.

The word is primarily of historical and philological interest, rather than a standing concept in present-day law or science. For reference, it appears in Latin dictionaries and concordances that include incorporare and its participles, such as Lewis and Short. See also: incorporation, incorporated, incorporate.