argentarius

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Latin

Etymology

From argentum (“silver”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Noun

argentārius m (genitive argentāriī or argentārī); second declension

  1. banker, money changer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative argentārius argentāriī
Genitive argentāriī
argentārī1 		argentāriōrum
Dative argentāriō argentāriīs
Accusative argentārium argentāriōs
Ablative argentāriō argentāriīs
Vocative argentārie argentāriī

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

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Adjective

argentārius (feminine argentāria, neuter argentārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. silvern
  2. monetary
  3. financial
  4. (relational) banking

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative argentārius argentāria argentārium argentāriī argentāriae argentāria
Genitive argentāriī argentāriae argentāriī argentāriōrum argentāriārum argentāriōrum
Dative argentāriō argentāriō argentāriīs
Accusative argentārium argentāriam argentārium argentāriōs argentāriās argentāria
Ablative argentāriō argentāriā argentāriō argentāriīs
Vocative argentārie argentāria argentārium argentāriī argentāriae argentāria

References

  • “argentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “argentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • argentarius 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)
  • argentarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be a banker: argentariam facere (Verr. 5. 59. 155)
    • to close one's bank, give up banking: argentariam dissolvere (Caecin. 4. 11)
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