porcarius

Latin

Etymology

From porcus (“pig, swine”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /porˈkaː.ri.us/, [pɔrˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /porˈka.ri.us/, [porˈkäːrius]

Adjective

porcārius (feminine porcāria, neuter porcārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) of or relating to a swine

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	porcārius	porcāria	porcārium		porcāriī	porcāriae	porcāria
Genitive	porcāriī	porcāriae	porcāriī		porcāriōrum	porcāriārum	porcāriōrum
Dative	porcāriō		porcāriō		porcāriīs
Accusative	porcārium	porcāriam	porcārium		porcāriōs	porcāriās	porcāria
Ablative	porcāriō	porcāriā	porcāriō		porcāriīs
Vocative	porcārie	porcāria	porcārium		porcāriī	porcāriae	porcāria

Noun

porcārius m (genitive porcāriī or porcārī); second declension

1. a swineherd

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porcārius	porcāriī
Genitive	porcāriī porcārī1	porcāriōrum
Dative	porcāriō	porcāriīs
Accusative	porcārium	porcāriōs
Ablative	porcāriō	porcāriīs
Vocative	porcārie	porcāriī

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

Synonyms

• subulcus

Derived terms

• porcāricius

Descendants

• Aromanian: purcar
• Catalan: porquer
• French: porcher
• Friulian: porcjâr
• Galician: porqueiro
• Italian: porcaio, porcaro
• Megleno-Romanian: purcar
• Occitan: porquièr
• Portuguese: porqueiro
• Romanian: porcar, purcar
• Sicilian: purcaru
• Spanish: porquero
• Venetian: porchèr, porcàr

References

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