femellarius
Latin
Etymology
From fēmella (“girl, young woman”) + -ārius (adjective-forming derivational suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /feː.melˈlaː.ri.us/, [feːmɛlˈlʲäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fe.melˈla.ri.us/, [femelˈläːrius]
Noun
fēmellārius m (genitive fēmellāriī or fēmellārī); second declension
- a woman-hunter, a follower of girls, womanizer, skirt chaser, Lothario
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fēmellārius | fēmellāriī |
| Genitive | fēmellāriī fēmellārī1 | fēmellāriōrum |
| Dative | fēmellāriō | fēmellāriīs |
| Accusative | fēmellārium | fēmellāriōs |
| Ablative | fēmellāriō | fēmellāriīs |
| Vocative | fēmellārie | fēmellāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- mulierārius
References
- “femellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- femellarius 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)
- femellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette