molinarius

Latin

Etymology

From molīna (“mill, grinding mill”) +‎ -ārius, substantive of molīnus (“of or pertaining to a mill”), from mola (“millstone”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mo.liːˈnaː.ri.us/, [mɔlʲiːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.liˈna.ri.us/, [moliˈnäːrius]

Noun

molīnārius m (genitive molīnāriī or molīnārī); second declension

1. miller

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	molīnārius	molīnāriī
Genitive	molīnāriī molīnārī1	molīnāriōrum
Dative	molīnāriō	molīnāriīs
Accusative	molīnārium	molīnāriōs
Ablative	molīnāriō	molīnāriīs
Vocative	molīnārie	molīnāriī

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

Synonyms

• (miller): molitor

Related terms

• mola
• molāris
• molārius
• molendārius
• molendīnārius
• molendīnum
• molīna
• molīnum
• molīnus
• molō

 

Descendants

• Asturian: molineru
• Catalan: moliner
• Dutch: molenaar, mulder
• Estonian: mölder
• French: meunier
• Friulian: mulinâr
• Italian: mugnaio, mulinaro, molinaro, mulinaio
• German: Müller, Müllner
• Limburgish: mölder
• Norman: monnyi
• Occitan: molinièr
• Old Galician-Portuguese: molneiro, molleiro
  • Galician: muiñeiro, moleiro
  • Portuguese: moleiro
• Sicilian: mulinaru
• Spanish: molinero
• Venetian: munaro, mołinaro, mułinaro, muner, mułiner
• Walloon: mônî

References

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