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Latin
Etymology
From prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ārius with an altered stem prōlēt-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prōlētārius (feminine prōlētāria, neuter prōlētārium); first/second-declension adjective
- belonging to the lowest class of citizens, whose only contribution to the State was their offspring
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "proletarius", 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)
- proletarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.