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Latin
Etymology
From metallum (“metal”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
metallārius m (genitive metallāriī or metallārī, feminine metallāria); second declension
- miner, man who works in a mine
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “metallarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- metallarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- metallarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016