carcerarius

carcer (“prison, jail”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kar.keˈraː.ri.us/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kar.t͡ʃeˈra.ri.us/,

carcerārius (feminine carcerāria, neuter carcerārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) of or belonging to a prison or its administration, carceral
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 1.2.20

First/second-declension adjective.

• carcerārium n (Mediaeval)

• → Catalan: carcerari
• Italian: carcerario

carcerārius m (genitive carcerāriī or carcerārī); second declension

1. a jailkeeper, a jailer

   Synonym: carceris custōs m

   • Inscr. Grut. 80.5
   • Aelius Donatus, ad Ter. Phorm. 2.3.26
   • CIL 6.1057.7
2. a prisoner
   • Aelius Donatus, Phorm. 373
   • Greg.-T., Franc. 10.6
3. (Medieval Latin, medicine) a sick or infirm person confined to bed or to a clinic

Second-declension noun.

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

• Old Spanish: carcelero
• Asturian: carceleru, alcarceleru

• “carcĕrārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carcĕrārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 265/2.
• CARCERARIUS 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)