fornicarius

Latin

Etymology

From fornix +‎ -ārius.

Noun

fornicārius m (genitive fornicāriī or fornicārī, feminine fornicāria); second declension

1. fornicator (male)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fornicārius	fornicāriī
Genitive	fornicāriī fornicārī1	fornicāriōrum
Dative	fornicāriō	fornicāriīs
Accusative	fornicārium	fornicāriōs
Ablative	fornicāriō	fornicāriīs
Vocative	fornicārie	fornicāriī

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

Synonyms

• fornicātor

Related terms

• fornicāria

References

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