cetarius

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Latin

Etymology

cētus +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

Adjective

cētārius (feminine cētāria, neuter cētārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. pertaining to fish

Usage notes

In Classical Latin this adjective is only found in substantive forms, including cētārius m (“fishmonger”) (see below); cētāriae f pl, used by Pliny to mean "fisheries"; and cētārium n (“fish pond”) (once in Horace).

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative cētārius cētāria cētārium cētāriī cētāriae cētāria
genitive cētāriī cētāriae cētāriī cētāriōrum cētāriārum cētāriōrum
dative cētāriō cētāriae cētāriō cētāriīs
accusative cētārium cētāriam cētārium cētāriōs cētāriās cētāria
ablative cētāriō cētāriā cētāriō cētāriīs
vocative cētārie cētāria cētārium cētāriī cētāriae cētāria

Noun

cētārius m (genitive cētāriī or cētārī); second declension

  1. fishmonger

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cētārius cētāriī
genitive cētāriī
cētārī1 		cētāriōrum
dative cētāriō cētāriīs
accusative cētārium cētāriōs
ablative cētāriō cētāriīs
vocative cētārie cētāriī

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

References

  • “cetarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cetarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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