Latin edit

Etymology edit

From pecu +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

pecuārius (feminine pecuāria, neuter pecuārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (relational) sheep, cattle

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative pecuārius pecuāria pecuārium pecuāriī pecuāriae pecuāria
Genitive pecuāriī pecuāriae pecuāriī pecuāriōrum pecuāriārum pecuāriōrum
Dative pecuāriō pecuāriō pecuāriīs
Accusative pecuārium pecuāriam pecuārium pecuāriōs pecuāriās pecuāria
Ablative pecuāriō pecuāriā pecuāriō pecuāriīs
Vocative pecuārie pecuāria pecuārium pecuāriī pecuāriae pecuāria

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Catalan: pecuari
  • Galician: pecuario
  • Portuguese: pecuário
  • Spanish: pecuario

References edit

  • pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pecuarius 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)
  • pecuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)