quadrigarius

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Latin

Etymology

From quadrīgae (“four horse team”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Adjective

quadrīgārius (feminine quadrīgāria, neuter quadrīgārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to a quadriga (four horse racing chariot)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative quadrīgārius quadrīgāria quadrīgārium quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāria
genitive quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriōrum quadrīgāriārum quadrīgāriōrum
dative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriae quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
accusative quadrīgārium quadrīgāriam quadrīgārium quadrīgāriōs quadrīgāriās quadrīgāria
ablative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriā quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
vocative quadrīgārie quadrīgāria quadrīgārium quadrīgāriī quadrīgāriae quadrīgāria

Noun

quadrīgārius m (genitive quadrīgāriī or quadrīgārī); second declension

  1. a chariot racer, especially one who drives a quadriga

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quadrīgārius quadrīgāriī
genitive quadrīgāriī
quadrīgārī1 		quadrīgāriōrum
dative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
accusative quadrīgārium quadrīgāriōs
ablative quadrīgāriō quadrīgāriīs
vocative quadrīgārie quadrīgāriī

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

References

  • “quadrigarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quadrigarius 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)
  • quadrigarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “quadrigarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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