quadrigarius

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See also: Quadrigarius

Latin

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Etymology

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From quadrīgae (four horse team) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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quadrīgārius (feminine quadrīgāria, neuter quadrīgārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to a quadriga (four horse racing chariot)

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

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quadrīgārius m (genitive quadrīgāriī or quadrīgārī); second declension

  1. a chariot racer, especially one who drives a quadriga

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

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

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References

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  • quadrigarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quadrigarius 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)
  • quadrigarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • quadrigarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers