dardanarius

Latin

Etymology

Presumably derived from the name of the wheat-producing region of Dardania.

Noun

dardanārius m (genitive dardanāriī or dardanārī); second declension

1. A speculator in wheat
2. A forestaller

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dardanārius	dardanāriī
Genitive	dardanāriī dardanārī1	dardanāriōrum
Dative	dardanāriō	dardanāriīs
Accusative	dardanārium	dardanāriōs
Ablative	dardanāriō	dardanāriīs
Vocative	dardanārie	dardanāriī

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

Descendants

• Portuguese: dardanário

References

• “dardanarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dardanarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.