rorarii

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs (compare Old English rǣs (running, race), English race (from Old Norse and Germanic root shared with previous) Albanian resh (to precipitate), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, quick motion, rush)).

Noun

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rōrāriī m pl (genitive rōrāriōrum); second declension

  1. (military) Type of soldiers in the pre-Marian Roman army, probably fulfilling the role of skirmishers.

Declension

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Second-declension noun, plural only.

References

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