carcerarius

Latin

Etymology

carcer (“prison, jail”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kar.keˈraː.ri.us/, [kärkɛˈräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kar.t͡ʃeˈra.ri.us/, [kärt͡ʃeˈräːrius]

Adjective

carcerārius (feminine carcerāria, neuter carcerārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) of or belonging to a prison or its administration, carceral
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 1.2.20

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	carcerārius	carcerāria	carcerārium		carcerāriī	carcerāriae	carcerāria
genitive	carcerāriī	carcerāriae	carcerāriī		carcerāriōrum	carcerāriārum	carcerāriōrum
dative	carcerāriō	carcerāriae	carcerāriō		carcerāriīs
accusative	carcerārium	carcerāriam	carcerārium		carcerāriōs	carcerāriās	carcerāria
ablative	carcerāriō	carcerāriā	carcerāriō		carcerāriīs
vocative	carcerārī	carcerāria	carcerārium		carcerāriī	carcerāriae	carcerāria

Derived terms

• carcerārium n (Mediaeval)

Descendants

• → Catalan: carcerari
• Italian: carcerario

Noun

carcerārius m (genitive carcerāriī or carcerārī); second declension

1. a jailkeeper, a jailer

   Synonym: carceris custōs m

   • Inscr. Grut. 80.5
   • Aelius Donatus, ad Ter. Phorm. 2.3.26
   • CIL 6.1057.7
2. a prisoner
   • Aelius Donatus, Phorm. 373
   • Greg.-T., Franc. 10.6
3. (Medieval Latin, medicine) a sick or infirm person confined to bed or to a clinic [1270]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carcerārius	carcerāriī
genitive	carcerāriī carcerārī1	carcerāriōrum
dative	carcerāriō	carcerāriīs
accusative	carcerārium	carcerāriōs
ablative	carcerāriō	carcerāriīs
vocative	carcerārī	carcerāriī

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

Descendants

• Old Spanish: carcelero
• Asturian: carceleru, alcarceleru

Further reading

• “carcĕrārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carcĕrārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 265/2.
• CARCERARIUS 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)