regionary

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region +‎ -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

Adjective

regionary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
   • 2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175:

     Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian.

Noun

regionary (plural regionaries)

1. (Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)
2. (historical) A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.