sextarius
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin sextārius (“sixth part”), from sextus (“sixth”) + -ārius.
NounEdit
sextarius (plural sextarii)
- (historical) A Roman measure of capacity, one sixth of a congius, about 546 ml or approximately one pint.
ReferencesEdit
- Ancient Roman units of measurement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From sextus (“sixth”) + -ārius.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sekˈstaː.ri.us/, [s̠ɛkˈs̠t̪aː.ɾi.ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sekˈsta.ri.us/, [sɛkˈst̪aː.ri.us]
NounEdit
sextārius m (genitive sextāriī or sextārī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sextārius | sextāriī |
Genitive | sextāriī sextārī1 |
sextāriōrum |
Dative | sextāriō | sextāriīs |
Accusative | sextārium | sextāriōs |
Ablative | sextāriō | sextāriīs |
Vocative | sextārie | sextāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- sextarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sextarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sextarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- sextarius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sextarius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin