escarius

Latin

Etymology

ēsca (“food; bait”) +‎ -ārius (“relational adjective suffix”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːsˈkaː.ri.us/, [eːs̠ˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /esˈka.ri.us/, [esˈkäːrius]

Adjective

ēscārius (feminine ēscāria, neuter ēscārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to food, bait or eating

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ēscārius	ēscāria	ēscārium		ēscāriī	ēscāriae	ēscāria
genitive	ēscāriī	ēscāriae	ēscāriī		ēscāriōrum	ēscāriārum	ēscāriōrum
dative	ēscāriō	ēscāriae	ēscāriō		ēscāriīs
accusative	ēscārium	ēscāriam	ēscārium		ēscāriōs	ēscāriās	ēscāria
ablative	ēscāriō	ēscāriā	ēscāriō		ēscāriīs
vocative	ēscārie	ēscāria	ēscārium		ēscāriī	ēscāriae	ēscāria

Derived terms

• ēscāriola (Late Latin)

Further reading

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