funerarius

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Latin

Etymology

From fūnus (funeral) (oblique stem fūner-) +‎ -ārius (-ary”, “pertaining to, suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fūnerārius (feminine fūnerāria, neuter fūnerārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (relational, Late Latin) Of or pertaining to a funeral; funeral

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative fūnerārius fūnerāria fūnerārium fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāria
genitive fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāriī fūnerāriōrum fūnerāriārum fūnerāriōrum
dative fūnerāriō fūnerāriae fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
accusative fūnerārium fūnerāriam fūnerārium fūnerāriōs fūnerāriās fūnerāria
ablative fūnerāriō fūnerāriā fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
vocative fūnerārie fūnerāria fūnerārium fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāria

Descendants

(all borrowings)

Noun

fūnerārius m (genitive fūnerāriī or fūnerārī); second declension

  1. undertaker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

References

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