lecticarius

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Latin

Lecticarii at work

Etymology

From lectīca (“litter”) +‎ -ārius (“forming agent nouns”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

Pronunciation

Noun

lectīcārius m (genitive lectīcāriī or lectīcārī); second declension

  1. A litter-bearer, typically an attractive slave well-dressed in red and particularly the public porters employed to carry funereal litters to gravesites under the late empire
  2. (inexact) A sedan-bearer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lectīcārius lectīcāriī
genitive lectīcāriī
lectīcārī1 		lectīcāriōrum
dative lectīcāriō lectīcāriīs
accusative lectīcārium lectīcāriōs
ablative lectīcāriō lectīcāriīs
vocative lectīcārie lectīcāriī

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

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