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Latin
Etymology
sella (“seat, couch”) + -ārius (“-er”)
Pronunciation
Noun
sellārius m (genitive sellāriī or sellārī); second declension
- male prostitute, †sellary
c. 117 CE,
Tacitus,
Annales 6.1:
- tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci
- 1598 translation by Richard Greenway
- Then first of all were those vnknowen words of Sellaries and Spintries found out of the filthines of the place.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants