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Latin
Etymology
From stō + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
statārius (feminine statāria, neuter statārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or belonging to standing or standing fast, standing, stationary, (rare) steady
59 BC–AD 17,
Titus Livius,
22 18:
- Ea adsuetior montibus et ad concursandum inter saxa rupesque aptior ac leuior cum uelocitate corporum, tum armorum habitu, campestrem hostem, grauem armis statariumque, pugnae genere facile elusit.
- These troops were more used to mountains, and better suited to skirmishing amid rocks and crags, and being more agile and more lightly armed, they had no difficulty — thanks to the nature of the fighting — in getting the better of an enemy whose heavy armour and stationary tactics were adapted to level ground.
- (transferred sense) calm, tranquil, of an orator
46 BCE,
Cicero,
Brutus 239:
- C. deinde Piso statarius et sermonis plenus orator, minime ille quidem tardus in excogitando, verum tamen voltu et simulatione multo etiam acutior quam erat videbatur.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
See also
References
- “statarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.