mercenarius

Latin

Alternative forms

• mercēnnārius

Etymology

From *mercēdnārius/*mercēdinārius, from Latin mercēs. Compare mercēdonius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mer.keːˈnaː.ri.us/, [mɛrkeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mer.t͡ʃeˈna.ri.us/, [mert͡ʃeˈnäːrius]

Adjective

mercēnārius (feminine mercēnāria, neuter mercēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. hired for pay
2. mercenary

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mercēnārius	mercēnāria	mercēnārium		mercēnāriī	mercēnāriae	mercēnāria
Genitive	mercēnāriī	mercēnāriae	mercēnāriī		mercēnāriōrum	mercēnāriārum	mercēnāriōrum
Dative	mercēnāriō		mercēnāriō		mercēnāriīs
Accusative	mercēnārium	mercēnāriam	mercēnārium		mercēnāriōs	mercēnāriās	mercēnāria
Ablative	mercēnāriō	mercēnāriā	mercēnāriō		mercēnāriīs
Vocative	mercēnārie	mercēnāria	mercēnārium		mercēnāriī	mercēnāriae	mercēnāria

Descendants

• Catalan: mercenari
• English: mercenary
• French: mercenaire
• Galician: mercenario
• Italian: mercenario
• Occitan: mercenari
• Portuguese: marceneiro, mercenário
• Spanish: mercenario
• Romanian: mercenar
• Translingual: Mercenaria

References

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