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Latin
Etymology
pullus + -ārius
Pronunciation
Adjective
pullārius (feminine pullāria, neuter pullārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to young chicks, esp. as used in divination
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Noun
pullārius m (genitive pullāriī or pullārī, feminine pullāria); second declension
- a keeper of sacred chickens (for the augur)
- (euphemistic) a boylover
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “pullarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pullarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pullarius 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)
- pullarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pullarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pullarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin