auxiliarius

Latin

Etymology

From auxilium (“help”) +‎ -ārius (“-er”).

Noun

auxiliārius m (genitive auxiliāriī or auxiliārī); second declension

1. (in the plural) auxiliaries (troops)
2. assistant
3. ally

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	auxiliārius	auxiliāriī
Genitive	auxiliāriī auxiliārī1	auxiliāriōrum
Dative	auxiliāriō	auxiliāriīs
Accusative	auxiliārium	auxiliāriōs
Ablative	auxiliāriō	auxiliāriīs
Vocative	auxiliārie	auxiliāriī

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

Related terms

• auxiliāris

Descendants

• → English: auxiliary
• → Italian: ausiliario

References

• “auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auxiliarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.