muliercularius

Latin

Etymology

From muliercula (“woman”, diminutive) +‎ -ārius (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mu.li.er.kuˈlaː.ri.us/, [mʊlʲiɛrkʊˈɫ̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mu.li.er.kuˈla.ri.us/, [mulierkuˈläːrius]

Noun

mulierculārius m (genitive mulierculāriī or mulierculārī); second declension

1. (colloquial) womanizer, philanderer

   Synonyms: mulierōsus, muliebrōsus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mulierculārius	mulierculāriī
genitive	mulierculāriī mulierculārī1	mulierculāriōrum
dative	mulierculāriō	mulierculāriīs
accusative	mulierculārium	mulierculāriōs
ablative	mulierculāriō	mulierculāriīs
vocative	mulierculārie	mulierculāriī

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

References

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