acuarius

Latin

Etymology

acus +‎ -ārius

Noun

acuārius m (genitive acuāriī or acuārī); second declension

1. maker or seller of needles, pins

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acuārius	acuāriī
Genitive	acuāriī acuārī1	acuāriōrum
Dative	acuāriō	acuāriīs
Accusative	acuārium	acuāriōs
Ablative	acuāriō	acuāriīs
Vocative	acuārie	acuāriī

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

Descendants

• Romanian: acar

References

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