apiarius

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Latin

Etymology

apis (“a bee”) +‎ -ārius (“agent of use”, “-keeper”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.piˈaː.ri.us/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.piˈa.ri.us/,

Noun

apiārius m (genitive apiāriī or apiārī); second declension

an apiarist, an apiculturist, a beekeeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apiārius	apiāriī
genitive	apiāriī apiārī¹	apiāriōrum
dative	apiāriō	apiāriīs
accusative	apiārium	apiāriōs
ablative	apiāriō	apiāriīs
vocative	apiārie	apiāriī

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

Synonyms

(apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper): cīdlārius (Mediaeval)

Descendants

Sardinian: abialzu
Sicilian: aparu

References

“ăpĭārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ăpĭārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 141/1.
“apiārius” on page 147/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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