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Latin
Etymology
From ager + -arius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
agrārius (feminine agrāria, neuter agrārium); first/second-declension adjective
- agrarian
- agrāriae lēgēs ― agrarian laws, relating to the division of public lands among the poorer citizens
- agrāriam rem tentāre ― to urge a division of public lands
- triumvir agrārius ― superintendent of the division of public lands
- agrāriae statiōnēs ― (military) outposts
- agrāriī ― those who urged the agrarian laws and sought the possession of public land; the partisans of the agrarian laws
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “agrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agrarius 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)
- agrarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.