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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.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative quadrīgārius quadrīgāria quadrīgārium quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāria
genitive quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriōrum quadrīgāriārum quadrīgāriōrum
dative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriae quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
accusative quadrīgārium quadrīgāriam quadrīgārium quadrīgāriōs quadrīgāriās quadrīgāria
ablative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriā quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
vocative quadrīgārie quadrīgāria quadrīgārium quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāria

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