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Latin
Etymology
From commentor + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
commentārius m (genitive commentāriī or commentārī); second declension
- memorandum, notebook
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico ― Commentaries on the Gallic War (written by Julius Caesar)
- diary, journal
- (law) a brief
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
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References
- “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commentarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
- “commentarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commentarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “commentarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin