ancianus

Latin

Alternative forms

• ansiānus, anthiānus, anxiānus, anziānus
• antriānus (misspelling?)

Etymology

Borrowed from the Italian reflexes of Vulgar Latin *anteānus. Perhaps first attested in the Annales ianuenses (entry for 1230).

Noun

anciānus m (genitive anciānī); second declension (Medieval Latin, Italy, chiefly in the plural)

1. a high-ranking city official
2. a military or naval commander
3. a overseer of a monastery
4. the elders of the Albigeois sect

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	anciānus	anciānī
genitive	anciānī	anciānōrum
dative	anciānō	anciānīs
accusative	anciānum	anciānōs
ablative	anciānō	anciānīs
vocative	anciāne	anciānī

References

• ancianus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “ancianus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 42

Further reading

• "ancianus", 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)