cancellarius
Latin
Etymology
From cancelli.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kan.kelˈlaː.ri.us/, [käŋkɛlˈlʲäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kan.t͡ʃelˈla.ri.us/, [kän̠ʲt͡ʃelˈläːrius]
Noun
cancellārius m (genitive cancellāriī or cancellārī); second declension
- A kind of porter, doorkeeper.
- A secretary.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cancellārius | cancellāriī |
Genitive | cancellāriī cancellārī1 |
cancellāriōrum |
Dative | cancellāriō | cancellāriīs |
Accusative | cancellārium | cancellāriōs |
Ablative | cancellāriō | cancellāriīs |
Vocative | cancellārie | cancellāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Old French: chancelier
- French: chancelier
- → Middle English: chaunceler
- English: chancellor
- → Irish: seansailéir
- English: chancellor
- → German: Kanzler
- → Icelandic: kanslari
- Romanian: cancelar
- → Welsh: canghellor
- Spanish: canciller
Adjective
cancellārius (feminine cancellāria, neuter cancellārium); first/second-declension adjective
- imprisoned (living or kept behind bars)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cancellārius | cancellāria | cancellārium | cancellāriī | cancellāriae | cancellāria | |
Genitive | cancellāriī | cancellāriae | cancellāriī | cancellāriōrum | cancellāriārum | cancellāriōrum | |
Dative | cancellāriō | cancellāriō | cancellāriīs | ||||
Accusative | cancellārium | cancellāriam | cancellārium | cancellāriōs | cancellāriās | cancellāria | |
Ablative | cancellāriō | cancellāriā | cancellāriō | cancellāriīs | |||
Vocative | cancellārie | cancellāria | cancellārium | cancellāriī | cancellāriae | cancellāria |
References
- “cancellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cancellarius 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)
- cancellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cancellarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cancellarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “cancellarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Further reading
- “cancellarius1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cancellarius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “chancellor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.