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Latin
Etymology
In sense 1, from laquear (“panelled ceiling”). In sense 2, from laqueus (“noose, snare”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
laqueārius m (genitive laqueāriī or laqueārī); second declension
- a maker of paneled ceilings.
- (Late Latin, hapax) a gladiator who used a noose as a weapon
early 7th c. CE, Isidore of Seville,
Etymologiae sive Origines 18.56:
[1]- Laqueariorum pugna erat fugientes in ludo homines iniecto laqueo inpeditos consecutosque prostrare amictos umbone pellicio.
Usage notes
Some editions of Isidore read laqueatorum instead of laqueariorum for sense 2.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “laquearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laquearius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “laquearius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers