membranarius

Latin

Etymology

From membrāna (“skin, membrane”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

membrānārius m (genitive membrānāriī or membrānārī); second declension

1. a parchment maker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	membrānārius	membrānāriī
Genitive	membrānāriī membrānārī1	membrānāriōrum
Dative	membrānāriō	membrānāriīs
Accusative	membrānārium	membrānāriōs
Ablative	membrānāriō	membrānāriīs
Vocative	membrānārie	membrānāriī

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

Related terms

• membrāna
• membrānāceus
• membrāneus
• membrānula

References

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