pecuarius

Latin

Etymology

From pecu +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pe.kuˈaː.ri.us/, [pɛkuˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.kuˈa.ri.us/, [pekuˈäːrius]

Adjective

pecuārius (feminine pecuāria, neuter pecuārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) sheep, cattle

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pecuārius	pecuāria	pecuārium		pecuāriī	pecuāriae	pecuāria
genitive	pecuāriī	pecuāriae	pecuāriī		pecuāriōrum	pecuāriārum	pecuāriōrum
dative	pecuāriō	pecuāriae	pecuāriō		pecuāriīs
accusative	pecuārium	pecuāriam	pecuārium		pecuāriōs	pecuāriās	pecuāria
ablative	pecuāriō	pecuāriā	pecuāriō		pecuāriīs
vocative	pecuārie	pecuāria	pecuārium		pecuāriī	pecuāriae	pecuāria

Related terms

• pecu

Descendants

• Catalan: pecuari
• Galician: pecuario
• Portuguese: pecuário
• Spanish: pecuario

References

• “pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pecuarius 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)
• pecuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)