coriarius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.riˈaː.ri.us/, [kɔriˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.riˈa.ri.us/, [koriˈäːrius]

Adjective

coriārius (feminine coriāria, neuter coriārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) leather, tanning

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	coriārius	coriāria	coriārium		coriāriī	coriāriae	coriāria
genitive	coriāriī	coriāriae	coriāriī		coriāriōrum	coriāriārum	coriāriōrum
dative	coriāriō	coriāriae	coriāriō		coriāriīs
accusative	coriārium	coriāriam	coriārium		coriāriōs	coriāriās	coriāria
ablative	coriāriō	coriāriā	coriāriō		coriāriīs
vocative	coriārie	coriāria	coriārium		coriāriī	coriāriae	coriāria

Noun

coriārius m (genitive coriāriī or coriārī); second declension

1. leather worker
2. tanner

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coriārius	coriāriī
genitive	coriāriī coriārī1	coriāriōrum
dative	coriāriō	coriāriīs
accusative	coriārium	coriāriōs
ablative	coriāriō	coriāriīs
vocative	coriārie	coriāriī

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

Descendants

• Old French: corier
  • → English: currier
• Italian: coiaio, cuoiaio

References

• “coriarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coriarius 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)
• coriarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “coriarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coriarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin