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English
Noun
balistarius (plural balistarii)
- Alternative form of ballistarius
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
balistārius m (genitive balistāriī or balistārī); second declension
- Alternative form of ballistārius
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “balistārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1 bālista, etc. in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “206/1”
- balistarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “balistarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 79