pecorarius

Latin

Etymology

From pecus, pecoris (“livestock, cattle”) +‎ -ārius (agent noun suffix).

Noun

pecorārius m (genitive pecorāriī or pecorārī); second declension

1. herdsman, shepherd

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pecorārius	pecorāriī
Genitive	pecorāriī pecorārī1	pecorāriōrum
Dative	pecorāriō	pecorāriīs
Accusative	pecorārium	pecorāriōs
Ablative	pecorāriō	pecorāriīs
Vocative	pecorārie	pecorāriī

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

Synonyms

• pāstor
• pecuārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: picurar
• Friulian: piorâr
• Italian: pecoraio
• Megleno-Romanian: picurar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pegureiro, pigureiro
  • Galician: pegureiro
  • Portuguese: pegureiro
• Romanian: păcurar
• Sicilian: picuraru
• Venetian: piegoràro

References

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