sagittarius

See also: Sagittarius

Latin

Etymology

From sagitta (“arrow”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sa.ɡitˈtaː.ri.us/, [s̠äɡɪt̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.d͡ʒitˈta.ri.us/, [säd͡ʒit̪ˈt̪äːrius]

Adjective

sagittārius (feminine sagittāria, neuter sagittārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. armed with a bow and arrows
2. of or concerning arrows

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sagittārius	sagittāria	sagittārium		sagittāriī	sagittāriae	sagittāria
Genitive	sagittāriī	sagittāriae	sagittāriī		sagittāriōrum	sagittāriārum	sagittāriōrum
Dative	sagittāriō		sagittāriō		sagittāriīs
Accusative	sagittārium	sagittāriam	sagittārium		sagittāriōs	sagittāriās	sagittāria
Ablative	sagittāriō	sagittāriā	sagittāriō		sagittāriīs
Vocative	sagittārie	sagittāria	sagittārium		sagittāriī	sagittāriae	sagittāria

Descendants

• English: sagittary

Noun

sagittārius m (genitive sagittāriī or sagittārī); second declension

1. archer, bowman
2. fletcher, arrow-maker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sagittārius	sagittāriī
Genitive	sagittāriī sagittārī1	sagittāriōrum
Dative	sagittāriō	sagittāriīs
Accusative	sagittārium	sagittāriōs
Ablative	sagittāriō	sagittāriīs
Vocative	sagittārie	sagittāriī

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: săgetar
  • → Albanian: shigjetar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: saettaio
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: seteiro
  • Spanish: saetero
• Borrowings:
  • → English: Sagittarius, sagittary
  • → French: sagittaire, Sagittaire
  • → Italian: sagittario, Sagittario
  • → Portuguese: Sagitário
  • → Romanian: sagitar
  • → Spanish: Sagitario

Related terms

• sāgiō
• sagitta
• sagittātus
• sagittifer
• sagittō
• sagittula

References

• “sagittarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sagittarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sagittarius 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)
• sagittarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.