auxiliarius

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Latin

Etymology

From auxilium (help) +‎ -ārius (-er).

Noun

auxiliārius m (genitive auxiliāriī or auxiliārī); second declension

  1. (in the plural) auxiliaries (troops)
  2. assistant
  3. ally

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative auxiliārius auxiliāriī
genitive auxiliāriī
auxiliārī1
auxiliāriōrum
dative auxiliāriō auxiliāriīs
accusative auxiliārium auxiliāriōs
ablative auxiliāriō auxiliāriīs
vocative auxiliārie auxiliāriī

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

Descendants

  • English: auxiliary
  • Italian: ausiliario

References

  • auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auxiliarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.