sortiarius

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

sorcerus (Reichenau Glossary)

Etymology edit

From sort- (“fate, fortune”) +‎ -ārius (occupational suffix), hence with an etymological sense of 'fortune-teller'. Attested in the writings of Hincmar.^[1]

Noun edit

sortiārius m (genitive sortiāriī or sortiārī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

sorcerer

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sortiārius	sortiāriī
Genitive	sortiāriī sortiārī¹	sortiāriōrum
Dative	sortiāriō	sortiāriīs
Accusative	sortiārium	sortiāriōs
Ablative	sortiāriō	sortiāriīs
Vocative	sortiārie	sortiāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms edit

sortilegus

Descendants edit

Old French: sorcier, sorchier
- French: sorcier
- Norman: chorchi
- → Middle English: sorcerere, sorcerour, sorserer, sorcerer
  - English: sorcerer

References edit

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sortiarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 981

[1] Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sortiarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 981

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