bestiarius
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bēstia (“beast”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /beːs.tiˈaː.ri.us/, [beːs̠t̪iˈäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bes.tiˈa.ri.us/, [best̪iˈäːrius]
Noun
[edit]bēstiārius m (genitive bēstiāriī or bēstiārī); second declension
- one who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter
- a beastmaster
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bēstiārius | bēstiāriī |
Genitive | bēstiāriī bēstiārī1 |
bēstiāriōrum |
Dative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs |
Accusative | bēstiārium | bēstiāriōs |
Ablative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs |
Vocative | bēstiārie | bēstiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Adjective
[edit]bēstiārius (feminine bēstiāria, neuter bēstiārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to beasts
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | bēstiārius | bēstiāria | bēstiārium | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāria | |
Genitive | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriōrum | bēstiāriārum | bēstiāriōrum | |
Dative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs | ||||
Accusative | bēstiārium | bēstiāriam | bēstiārium | bēstiāriōs | bēstiāriās | bēstiāria | |
Ablative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriā | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs | |||
Vocative | bēstiārie | bēstiāria | bēstiārium | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāria |
References
[edit]- “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bestiarius 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)
- bestiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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