cinerarius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ki.neˈraː.ri.us/, [kɪnɛˈräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.neˈra.ri.us/, [t͡ʃineˈräːrius]

Etymology 1

cinis (“ashes”) +‎ -ārius (adjective suffix)

Adjective

cinerārius (feminine cinerāria, neuter cinerārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) ashes

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cinerārius	cinerāria	cinerārium		cinerāriī	cinerāriae	cinerāria
genitive	cinerāriī	cinerāriae	cinerāriī		cinerāriōrum	cinerāriārum	cinerāriōrum
dative	cinerāriō	cinerāriae	cinerāriō		cinerāriīs
accusative	cinerārium	cinerāriam	cinerārium		cinerāriōs	cinerāriās	cinerāria
ablative	cinerāriō	cinerāriā	cinerāriō		cinerāriīs
vocative	cinerārie	cinerāria	cinerārium		cinerāriī	cinerāriae	cinerāria

Related terms

• cinerārium

Descendants

• Catalan: cinerari
• → English: cinerary
• French: cinéraire
• Italian: cinerario
• Spanish: cinerario

Noun

cinerārius m (genitive cinerāriī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) burned land

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cinerārius	cinerāriī
genitive	cinerāriī	cinerāriōrum
dative	cinerāriō	cinerāriīs
accusative	cinerārium	cinerāriōs
ablative	cinerāriō	cinerāriīs
vocative	cinerārie	cinerāriī

Etymology 2

cinis (“ashes”) +‎ -ārius (agentive suffix), applied to hairdressers from the ashes used to heat hair rollers.

Noun

cinerārius m (genitive cinerāriī or cinerārī); second declension

2. a male hairdresser

   Synonym: ciniflō

3. (Medieval Latin) ash-worker, maker of potash

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cinerārius	cinerāriī
genitive	cinerāriī cinerārī1	cinerāriōrum
dative	cinerāriō	cinerāriīs
accusative	cinerārium	cinerāriōs
ablative	cinerāriō	cinerāriīs
vocative	cinerārie	cinerāriī

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

References

• “cinerarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cinerarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cinerarius 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)
• “cinerarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cinerarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• cinerarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “cinerarius”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cinerarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 179/2