hordearius

Latin

Etymology

From hordeum (“barley”) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hor.deˈaː.ri.us/, [hɔrd̪eˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /or.deˈa.ri.us/, [ord̪eˈäːrius]

Adjective

hordeārius (feminine hordeāria, neuter hordeārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or relating to barley.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hordeārius	hordeāria	hordeārium		hordeāriī	hordeāriae	hordeāria
Genitive	hordeāriī	hordeāriae	hordeāriī		hordeāriōrum	hordeāriārum	hordeāriōrum
Dative	hordeāriō		hordeāriō		hordeāriīs
Accusative	hordeārium	hordeāriam	hordeārium		hordeāriōs	hordeāriās	hordeāria
Ablative	hordeāriō	hordeāriā	hordeāriō		hordeāriīs
Vocative	hordeārie	hordeāria	hordeārium		hordeāriī	hordeāriae	hordeāria

Noun

hordeārius m

1. (in the plural) Gladiators.
   • Pliny, Naturalis Historia 18.14:

     Antiquissimum in cibis hordeum, sicut Atheniensium ritu Menandro auctore apparet et gladiatorum cognomine, qui hordearii vocabantur.

     Barley is one of the most ancient aliments of man, a fact that is proved by a custom of the Athenians, mentioned by Menander, as also by the name of "hordearii," that used to be given to gladiators.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hordeārius	hordeāriī
Genitive	hordeāriī hordeārī1	hordeāriōrum
Dative	hordeāriō	hordeāriīs
Accusative	hordeārium	hordeāriōs
Ablative	hordeāriō	hordeāriīs
Vocative	hordeārie	hordeāriī

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

References

• “hordearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hordearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hordearius 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)
• hordearius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hordearius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hordearius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin