pullarius

Latin

FWOTD – 26 December 2024

Etymology

From pullus +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pulˈlaː.ri.us/, [pʊlˈlʲäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pulˈla.ri.us/, [pulˈläːrius]

Adjective

pullārius (feminine pullāria, neuter pullārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to young chicks, esp. as used in divination

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pullārius	pullāria	pullārium		pullāriī	pullāriae	pullāria
genitive	pullāriī	pullāriae	pullāriī		pullāriōrum	pullāriārum	pullāriōrum
dative	pullāriō	pullāriae	pullāriō		pullāriīs
accusative	pullārium	pullāriam	pullārium		pullāriōs	pullāriās	pullāria
ablative	pullāriō	pullāriā	pullāriō		pullāriīs
vocative	pullārie	pullāria	pullārium		pullāriī	pullāriae	pullāria

Descendants

• Galician: poleiro
• Italian: pollaio
• Portuguese: poleiro
• Sicilian: puddaru
• Spanish: pollero

Noun

pullārius m (genitive pullāriī or pullārī, feminine pullāria); second declension

1. a keeper of sacred chickens (for the augur)
2. (euphemistic) a boylover

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pullārius	pullāriī
genitive	pullāriī pullārī1	pullāriōrum
dative	pullāriō	pullāriīs
accusative	pullārium	pullāriōs
ablative	pullāriō	pullāriīs
vocative	pullārie	pullāriī

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

Descendants

• → Italian: pollario

References

• “pullarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pullarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pullarius 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)
• pullarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pullarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pullarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin