soldurius

Latin

Etymology

Of Celtic origin. The word is given by Caesar in the De Bello Gallico book 3 chapter 22 as the Gaulish word for the kind of warriors Adcantuannus led.^[1]

Noun

soldūrius m (genitive soldūriī or soldūrī); second declension

(chiefly in the plural) vassal; retainer (of a chieftain)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	soldūrius	soldūriī
genitive	soldūriī soldūrī¹	soldūriōrum
dative	soldūriō	soldūriīs
accusative	soldūrium	soldūriōs
ablative	soldūriō	soldūriīs
vocative	soldūrie	soldūriī

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

References

^ Delamarre, Xavier, Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 276

[1] Delamarre, Xavier, Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 276

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