veredarius

Latin

Etymology

From verēdus (“fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯e.reːˈdaː.ri.us/, [u̯ɛreːˈd̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.reˈda.ri.us/, [vereˈd̪äːrius]

Noun

verēdārius m (genitive verēdāriī or verēdārī); second declension

1. A post boy, courier.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	verēdārius	verēdāriī
Genitive	verēdāriī verēdārī1	verēdāriōrum
Dative	verēdāriō	verēdāriīs
Accusative	verēdārium	verēdāriōs
Ablative	verēdāriō	verēdāriīs
Vocative	verēdārie	verēdāriī

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

Related terms

• paraverēdus
• verēdus

Descendants

• Spanish: veredario

References

• “veredarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veredarius 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)
• veredarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “veredarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers