regionary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From neo-Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary.
Adjective
[edit]regionary (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
- 2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175:
- Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian.
Noun
[edit]regionary (plural regionaries)
- (Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)
- (historical) A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.
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