ferentarius

Latin

Etymology

According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, strike”). Cognate with Latin feriō (“I hit”), Latin forō (“I bore”), English berry (“to beat, thrash”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fe.renˈtaː.ri.us/, [fɛrɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe.renˈta.ri.us/, [feren̪ˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

ferentārius m (genitive ferentāriī or ferentārī); second declension

1. (military) A member of a sort of light troop, who fought with missile weapons

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ferentārius	ferentāriī
genitive	ferentāriī ferentārī1	ferentāriōrum
dative	ferentāriō	ferentāriīs
accusative	ferentārium	ferentāriōs
ablative	ferentāriō	ferentāriīs
vocative	ferentārie	ferentāriī

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

See also

• rorarii

References

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