librarius
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
librarius (plural librarii)
- (historical) An ancient or medieval scribe, copyist, or secretary.
- (historical) An ancient or medieval bookseller.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From liber (“book”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liˈbraː.ri.us/, [lʲɪˈbräːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbra.ri.us/, [liˈbräːrius]
Adjective edit
librārius (feminine librāria, neuter librārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to books
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | librārius | librāria | librārium | librāriī | librāriae | librāria | |
Genitive | librāriī | librāriae | librāriī | librāriōrum | librāriārum | librāriōrum | |
Dative | librāriō | librāriō | librāriīs | ||||
Accusative | librārium | librāriam | librārium | librāriōs | librāriās | librāria | |
Ablative | librāriō | librāriā | librāriō | librāriīs | |||
Vocative | librārie | librāria | librārium | librāriī | librāriae | librāria |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
librārius m (genitive librāriī or librārī, feminine librāria); second declension
- a scribe, copyist, secretary
- a bookseller
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | librārius | librāriī |
Genitive | librāriī librārī1 |
librāriōrum |
Dative | librāriō | librāriīs |
Accusative | librārium | librāriōs |
Ablative | librāriō | librāriīs |
Vocative | librārie | librāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References edit
- “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- librarius 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)
- librarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “librarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers