beneficiarius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From beneficium (“benefit, favor”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /be.ne.fi.kiˈaː.ri.us/, [bɛnɛfɪkiˈäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /be.ne.fi.t͡ʃiˈa.ri.us/, [benefit͡ʃiˈäːrius]
Noun edit
beneficiārius m (genitive beneficiāriī or beneficiārī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | beneficiārius | beneficiāriī |
| Genitive | beneficiāriī beneficiārī1 |
beneficiāriōrum |
| Dative | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriīs |
| Accusative | beneficiārium | beneficiāriōs |
| Ablative | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriīs |
| Vocative | beneficiārie | beneficiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Adjective edit
beneficiārius (feminine beneficiāria, neuter beneficiārium); first/second-declension adjective
- pertaining to a favor
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | beneficiārius | beneficiāria | beneficiārium | beneficiāriī | beneficiāriae | beneficiāria | |
| Genitive | beneficiāriī | beneficiāriae | beneficiāriī | beneficiāriōrum | beneficiāriārum | beneficiāriōrum | |
| Dative | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | beneficiārium | beneficiāriam | beneficiārium | beneficiāriōs | beneficiāriās | beneficiāria | |
| Ablative | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriā | beneficiāriō | beneficiāriīs | |||
| Vocative | beneficiārie | beneficiāria | beneficiārium | beneficiāriī | beneficiāriae | beneficiāria | |
References edit
- “beneficiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- beneficiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- beneficiarius 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)