originarius

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Latin

Etymology

orīgin- (oblique stem of orīgō, “earliest beginning”, “origin”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming adjectives, frequently substantivised)

Pronunciation

Adjective

orīginārius (feminine orīgināria, neuter orīginārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (post-Classical) original, native
    colōnus orīginārius
    (ab)original inhabitant / native inhabitant
  2. (post-Classical, of a dependent) whose status is determined by birth
  3. (Medieval Latin) primitive

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative orīginārius orīgināria orīginārium orīgināriī orīgināriae orīgināria
genitive orīgināriī orīgināriae orīgināriī orīgināriōrum orīgināriārum orīgināriōrum
dative orīgināriō orīgināriae orīgināriō orīgināriīs
accusative orīginārium orīgināriam orīginārium orīgināriōs orīgināriās orīgināria
ablative orīgināriō orīgināriā orīgināriō orīgināriīs
vocative orīginārie orīgināria orīginārium orīgināriī orīgināriae orīgināria

Descendants

Noun

orīginārius m (genitive orīgināriī or orīginārī); second declension

  1. (post-Classical) an original inhabitant, a native; in the plural, aborigines
  2. (post-Classical) a hereditary tenant of a servile status, a serf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

References

  • ŏrīgĭnārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • originarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ŏrīgĭnārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,092/1.
  • Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 748, “originarius”