cauponarius

Latin

Etymology

caupōna (“inn”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kau̯.poːˈnaː.ri.us/, [käu̯poːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kau̯.poˈna.ri.us/, [käu̯poˈnäːrius]

Noun

caupōnārius m (genitive caupōnāriī or caupōnārī); second declension

1. shopkeeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caupōnārius	caupōnāriī
genitive	caupōnāriī caupōnārī1	caupōnāriōrum
dative	caupōnāriō	caupōnāriīs
accusative	caupōnārium	caupōnāriōs
ablative	caupōnāriō	caupōnāriīs
vocative	caupōnārie	caupōnāriī

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

References

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