essedarius

Latin

Etymology

From essedum (a type of chariot) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

essedārius m (genitive essedāriī or essedārī); second declension

1. a Gaulish or Britannic charioteer
2. a gladiator who fights from a chariot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	essedārius	essedāriī
genitive	essedāriī essedārī1	essedāriōrum
dative	essedāriō	essedāriīs
accusative	essedārium	essedāriōs
ablative	essedāriō	essedāriīs
vocative	essedārie	essedāriī

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

References

• “essedarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “essedarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• essedarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.