topiarius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From topia (“ornamental gardening”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /to.piˈaː.ri.us/, [t̪ɔpiˈäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /to.piˈa.ri.us/, [t̪opiˈäːrius]
Noun edit
topiārius m (genitive topiāriī or topiārī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | topiārius | topiāriī |
| Genitive | topiāriī topiārī1 |
topiāriōrum |
| Dative | topiāriō | topiāriīs |
| Accusative | topiārium | topiāriōs |
| Ablative | topiāriō | topiāriīs |
| Vocative | topiārie | topiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Adjective edit
topiārius (feminine topiāria, neuter topiārium); first/second-declension adjective
- related to landscape gardening, having a connection to plant nursery, topiary
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | topiārius | topiāria | topiārium | topiāriī | topiāriae | topiāria | |
| Genitive | topiāriī | topiāriae | topiāriī | topiāriōrum | topiāriārum | topiāriōrum | |
| Dative | topiāriō | topiāriō | topiāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | topiārium | topiāriam | topiārium | topiāriōs | topiāriās | topiāria | |
| Ablative | topiāriō | topiāriā | topiāriō | topiāriīs | |||
| Vocative | topiārie | topiāria | topiārium | topiāriī | topiāriae | topiāria | |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “topiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- topiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.