operarius

Latin

Etymology

opera +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.peˈraː.ri.us/, [ɔpɛˈräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.peˈra.ri.us/, [opeˈräːrius]

Adjective

operārius (feminine operāria, neuter operārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) labouring, working

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	operārius	operāria	operārium		operāriī	operāriae	operāria
Genitive	operāriī	operāriae	operāriī		operāriōrum	operāriārum	operāriōrum
Dative	operāriō		operāriō		operāriīs
Accusative	operārium	operāriam	operārium		operāriōs	operāriās	operāria
Ablative	operāriō	operāriā	operāriō		operāriīs
Vocative	operārie	operāria	operārium		operāriī	operāriae	operāria

Descendants

• Asturian: obreru
• Catalan: obrer
• French: ouvrier
• Galician: obreiro
• Italian: operaio

• Occitan: obrièr
• Old French: ovrier
• Portuguese: obreiro
• Spanish: obrero

Noun

operārius m (genitive operāriī or operārī); second declension

1. labourer, worker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	operārius	operāriī
Genitive	operāriī operārī1	operāriōrum
Dative	operāriō	operāriīs
Accusative	operārium	operāriōs
Ablative	operāriō	operāriīs
Vocative	operārie	operāriī

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

Descendants

• Asturian: obreru, operariu (borrowing)
• Catalan: obrer, operari (borrowing)
• French: ouvrier, opéraire (borrowing)
• Friulian: operari (borrowing)
• Galician: obreiro, operario (borrowing)
• Italian: operaio

• Occitan: obrièr
• Old French: ovrier
• Portuguese: obreiro, operário (borrowing)
• Sicilian: opiraiu, operaiu
• Spanish: obrero, operario (borrowing)

References

• “operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• operarius 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)
• operarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.