funerarius

Latin

Etymology

From fūnus (“funeral”) (oblique stem fūner-) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”, “pertaining to”, suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fuː.neˈraː.ri.us/, [fuːnɛˈräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fu.neˈra.ri.us/, [funeˈräːrius]

Adjective

fūnerārius (feminine fūnerāria, neuter fūnerārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational, Late Latin) Of or pertaining to a funeral; funeral

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fūnerārius	fūnerāria	fūnerārium		fūnerāriī	fūnerāriae	fūnerāria
Genitive	fūnerāriī	fūnerāriae	fūnerāriī		fūnerāriōrum	fūnerāriārum	fūnerāriōrum
Dative	fūnerāriō		fūnerāriō		fūnerāriīs
Accusative	fūnerārium	fūnerāriam	fūnerārium		fūnerāriōs	fūnerāriās	fūnerāria
Ablative	fūnerāriō	fūnerāriā	fūnerāriō		fūnerāriīs
Vocative	fūnerārie	fūnerāria	fūnerārium		fūnerāriī	fūnerāriae	fūnerāria

Descendants

(all borrowings)

• Catalan: funerari
• English: funerary
• French: funéraire
• Italian: funerario
• Portuguese: funerário
• Romanian: funerar
• Spanish: funerario

Noun

fūnerārius m (genitive fūnerāriī or fūnerārī); second declension

1. undertaker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūnerārius	fūnerāriī
Genitive	fūnerāriī fūnerārī1	fūnerāriōrum
Dative	fūnerāriō	fūnerāriīs
Accusative	fūnerārium	fūnerāriōs
Ablative	fūnerāriō	fūnerāriīs
Vocative	fūnerārie	fūnerāriī

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

References

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