librarius
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]librarius (plural librarii)
- (historical) An ancient or medieval scribe, copyist, or secretary.
- (historical) An ancient or medieval bookseller.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From liber (“book”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /liˈbraː.ri.us/, [lʲɪˈbräːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbra.ri.us/, [liˈbräːrius]
Adjective
[edit]librārius (feminine librāria, neuter librārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to books
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | librārius | librāria | librārium | librāriī | librāriae | librāria | |
genitive | librāriī | librāriae | librāriī | librāriōrum | librāriārum | librāriōrum | |
dative | librāriō | librāriae | librāriō | librāriīs | |||
accusative | librārium | librāriam | librārium | librāriōs | librāriās | librāria | |
ablative | librāriō | librāriā | librāriō | librāriīs | |||
vocative | librārie | librāria | librārium | librāriī | librāriae | librāria |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]librārius m (genitive librāriī or librārī, feminine librāria); second declension
- a scribe, copyist, secretary
- a bookseller
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | librārius | librāriī |
genitive | librāriī librārī1 |
librāriōrum |
dative | librāriō | librāriīs |
accusative | librārium | librāriōs |
ablative | librāriō | librāriīs |
vocative | librārie | librāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- librarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- librarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “librarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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