rorarii
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs (compare Old English rǣs (“running, race”), English race (from Old Norse and Germanic root shared with previous) Albanian resh (“to precipitate”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “quick motion, rush”)).
Noun[edit]
rōrāriī m pl (genitive rōrāriōrum); second declension
- (military) Type of soldiers in the pre-Marian Roman army, probably fulfilling the role of skirmishers.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | rōrāriī |
| Genitive | rōrāriōrum |
| Dative | rōrāriīs |
| Accusative | rōrāriōs |
| Ablative | rōrāriīs |
| Vocative | rōrāriī |
References[edit]
- “rorarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rorarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rorarii”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “rorarii”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin