mercedarius

Latin

Etymology

From mercēs +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mer.keːˈdaː.ri.us/, [mɛrkeːˈd̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mer.t͡ʃeˈda.ri.us/, [mert͡ʃeˈd̪äːrius]

Noun

mercēdārius m

1. one who pays wages, paymaster
   • Seneca, Controversiae 10.4:

     liceat videre mercedarios tuos

     Permit us to see your paymasters.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mercēdārius	mercēdāriī
genitive	mercēdāriī mercēdārī1	mercēdāriōrum
dative	mercēdāriō	mercēdāriīs
accusative	mercēdārium	mercēdāriōs
ablative	mercēdāriō	mercēdāriīs
vocative	mercēdārie	mercēdāriī

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

References

• “mercedarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mercedarius 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)