focarius

Latin

Etymology

Found in Late Latin. From focus + -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /foˈkaː.ri.us/, [fɔˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /foˈka.ri.us/, [foˈkäːrius]

Noun

focārius m (genitive focāriī or focārī); second declension

1. a kitchen-boy

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	focārius	focāriī
Genitive	focāriī focārī1	focāriōrum
Dative	focāriō	focāriīs
Accusative	focārium	focāriōs
Ablative	focāriō	focāriīs
Vocative	focārie	focāriī

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

Derived terms

• focāria

Descendants

• Portuguese: fogueiro
• Spanish: foguero

Adjective

focārius (feminine focāria, neuter focārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. that which concerns the hearth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	focārius	focāria	focārium		focāriī	focāriae	focāria
Genitive	focāriī	focāriae	focāriī		focāriōrum	focāriārum	focāriōrum
Dative	focāriō		focāriō		focāriīs
Accusative	focārium	focāriam	focārium		focāriōs	focāriās	focāria
Ablative	focāriō	focāriā	focāriō		focāriīs
Vocative	focārie	focāria	focārium		focāriī	focāriae	focāria

Descendants

• Asturian: foguera
• Catalan: foguer, foguera
• English: foyer
• French: foyer
• Galician: fogueira
• Italian: focaia

• Occitan: foguièr
• Portuguese: fogueira
• Romanian: focar
• Spanish: hoguera

References

• “focarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• focarius 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)
• focarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.