panchrestarius

Latin

Etymology

From panchrestus (“good or useful for everything, universal”), from Ancient Greek πάγχρηστος (pánkhrēstos, “good for all work”).

Noun

panchrestārius m (genitive panchrestāriī or panchrestārī); second declension

1. a confectioner

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	panchrestārius	panchrestāriī
genitive	panchrestāriī panchrestārī1	panchrestāriōrum
dative	panchrestāriō	panchrestāriīs
accusative	panchrestārium	panchrestāriōs
ablative	panchrestāriō	panchrestāriīs
vocative	panchrestārie	panchrestāriī

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

Synonyms

• (confectioner): crustulārius, cuppēdinārius, dulciārius

Related terms

• panchrestus

References

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