emissarius

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

ēmissārius m (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension

  1. emissary, scout, spy
  2. shoot, young branch

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ēmissārius ēmissāriī
Genitive ēmissāriī
ēmissārī1
ēmissāriōrum
Dative ēmissāriō ēmissāriīs
Accusative ēmissārium ēmissāriōs
Ablative ēmissāriō ēmissāriīs
Vocative ēmissārie ēmissāriī

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

Descendants[edit]

  • Russian: эмиссар (emissar)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • emissarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • emissarius 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)
  • emissarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.