tragularius

Latin

Etymology

From trāgula (“javelin with throwing-strap”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /traː.ɡuˈlaː.ri.us/, [t̪räːɡʊˈɫ̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tra.ɡuˈla.ri.us/, [t̪räɡuˈläːrius]

Noun

trāgulārius m (genitive trāgulāriī or trāgulārī); second declension

1. soldier armed with a tragula

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trāgulārius	trāgulāriī
genitive	trāgulāriī trāgulārī1	trāgulāriōrum
dative	trāgulāriō	trāgulāriīs
accusative	trāgulārium	trāgulāriōs
ablative	trāgulāriō	trāgulāriīs
vocative	trāgulārie	trāgulāriī

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

Descendants

• → Italian: tragulario

References

• tragularius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tragularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tragularius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung