frumentarius
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fruː.menˈtaː.ri.us/, [fruːmɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fru.menˈta.ri.us/, [frumen̪ˈt̪äːrius]
Adjective
[edit]frūmentārius (feminine frūmentāria, neuter frūmentārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) grain, corn (especially concerning its supply)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | frūmentārius | frūmentāria | frūmentārium | frūmentāriī | frūmentāriae | frūmentāria | |
genitive | frūmentāriī | frūmentāriae | frūmentāriī | frūmentāriōrum | frūmentāriārum | frūmentāriōrum | |
dative | frūmentāriō | frūmentāriae | frūmentāriō | frūmentāriīs | |||
accusative | frūmentārium | frūmentāriam | frūmentārium | frūmentāriōs | frūmentāriās | frūmentāria | |
ablative | frūmentāriō | frūmentāriā | frūmentāriō | frūmentāriīs | |||
vocative | frūmentārie | frūmentāria | frūmentārium | frūmentāriī | frūmentāriae | frūmentāria |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: frumentari
- French: frumentaire
- Galician: frumentario
- Italian: frumentario
- Portuguese: frumentário
Noun
[edit]frūmentārius m (genitive frūmentāriī or frūmentārī); second declension
- a corn-dealer
- a spy
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “frumentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frumentarius 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)
- frumentarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.