vaccarius

Latin

Etymology

From vacca (“cow”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns). Attested in the Pactus Alamannorum.

Adjective

vaccārius (feminine vaccāria, neuter vaccārium); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)

1. of or pertaining to a cow.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	vaccārius	vaccāria	vaccārium		vaccāriī	vaccāriae	vaccāria
Genitive	vaccāriī	vaccāriae	vaccāriī		vaccāriōrum	vaccāriārum	vaccāriōrum
Dative	vaccāriō		vaccāriō		vaccāriīs
Accusative	vaccārium	vaccāriam	vaccārium		vaccāriōs	vaccāriās	vaccāria
Ablative	vaccāriō	vaccāriā	vaccāriō		vaccāriīs
Vocative	vaccārie	vaccāria	vaccārium		vaccāriī	vaccāriae	vaccāria

Noun

vaccārius m (genitive vaccāriī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. cowherd

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vaccārius	vaccāriī
Genitive	vaccāriī	vaccāriōrum
Dative	vaccāriō	vaccāriīs
Accusative	vaccārium	vaccāriōs
Ablative	vaccāriō	vaccāriīs
Vocative	vaccārie	vaccāriī

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vãcar
  • Romanian: văcar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vaccaio, vaccaro
  • Sicilian: vaccaru
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: vacjâr
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaquer
  • Franco-Provençal: vachier
  • French: vacher
  • Occitan: vaquièr
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vaqueru
  • Galician: vaqueiro
  • Portuguese: vaqueiro
  • Spanish: vaquero

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vaccarius”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• vaccarius 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)