scutarius

Latin

Etymology

From scūtum (“shield”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skuːˈtaː.ri.us/, [s̠kuːˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skuˈta.ri.us/, [skuˈt̪äːrius]

Adjective

scūtārius (feminine scūtāria, neuter scūtārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) of a shield, belonging to a shield

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	scūtārius	scūtāria	scūtārium		scūtāriī	scūtāriae	scūtāria
genitive	scūtāriī	scūtāriae	scūtāriī		scūtāriōrum	scūtāriārum	scūtāriōrum
dative	scūtāriō	scūtāriae	scūtāriō		scūtāriīs
accusative	scūtārium	scūtāriam	scūtārium		scūtāriōs	scūtāriās	scūtāria
ablative	scūtāriō	scūtāriā	scūtāriō		scūtāriīs
vocative	scūtārie	scūtāria	scūtārium		scūtāriī	scūtāriae	scūtāria

Noun

scūtārius m (genitive scūtāriī or scūtārī); second declension

1. shieldmaker
2. (Late Latin) guard (armed with a shield)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scūtārius	scūtāriī
genitive	scūtāriī scūtārī1	scūtāriōrum
dative	scūtāriō	scūtāriīs
accusative	scūtārium	scūtāriōs
ablative	scūtāriō	scūtāriīs
vocative	scūtārie	scūtāriī

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: scutar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: escuder
  • Old Francoprovençal: escuier
    • Franco-Provençal: êcuyer
  • Old French: escuier (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: escudier (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: escudeiro, escudeyro
    • Galician: escudeiro
    • Portuguese: escudeiro
  • Spanish: escudero
• Borrowings:
  • → Byzantine Greek: σκουτάριος (skoutários), σκουτέριος (skoutérios)

References

• “scutarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scutarius 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)
• scutarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• scutarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016