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Latin
Etymology
From pecu + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pecuārius (feminine pecuāria, neuter pecuārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) sheep, cattle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pecuarius 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)
- pecuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)