zetarius

Latin

Etymology

In third- and fourth-century writings of the Late Latin period, Z often represented word-initial prevocalic di.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /zeːˈtaː.ri.us/, [d̪͡z̪eːˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeˈta.ri.us/, [d̪͡z̪eˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

zētārius m (genitive zētāriī or zētārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) manuscript variant of diētārius

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	zētārius	zētāriī
genitive	zētāriī zētārī1	zētāriōrum
dative	zētāriō	zētāriīs
accusative	zētārium	zētāriōs
ablative	zētāriō	zētāriīs
vocative	zētārie	zētāriī

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

References

• “zētārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zetarius 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)
• zētārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,701/2.