escarius

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Latin

Etymology

ēsca (food; bait) +‎ -ārius (relational adjective suffix)

Pronunciation

Adjective

ēscārius (feminine ēscāria, neuter ēscārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to food, bait or eating

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative ēscārius ēscāria ēscārium ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāria
genitive ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāriī ēscāriōrum ēscāriārum ēscāriōrum
dative ēscāriō ēscāriae ēscāriō ēscāriīs
accusative ēscārium ēscāriam ēscārium ēscāriōs ēscāriās ēscāria
ablative ēscāriō ēscāriā ēscāriō ēscāriīs
vocative ēscārie ēscāria ēscārium ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāria

Derived terms

Further reading

  • escarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • escarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.