commentarius
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔm.mɛnˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kom.menˈtaː.ri.us]
Noun
[edit]commentārius m (genitive commentāriī or commentārī); second declension
- memorandum, notebook
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico ― Commentaries on the Gallic War (written by Julius Caesar)
- diary, journal
- (law) a brief
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: comentari
- → Galician: comentario
- → German: Kommentar
- → Dutch: commentaar
- → Hungarian: kommentár
- → Italian: commentario
- → Middle French: commentaire
- French: commentaire
- → Romanian: comentariu
- → English: commentary
- French: commentaire
- → Portuguese: comentário
- → Spanish: comentario
References
[edit]- “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “commentarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
- to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
- “commentarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commentarius in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “commentarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin