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.

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”