mercenarius
Latin
Alternative forms
- mercēnnārius
Etymology
From *mercēdnārius/*mercēdinārius, from Latin mercēs. Compare mercēdonius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mer.keːˈnaː.ri.us/, [mɛrkeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mer.t͡ʃeˈna.ri.us/, [mert͡ʃeˈnäːrius]
Adjective
mercēnārius (feminine mercēnāria, neuter mercēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
- hired for pay
- mercenary
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mercēnārius | mercēnāria | mercēnārium | mercēnāriī | mercēnāriae | mercēnāria | |
| Genitive | mercēnāriī | mercēnāriae | mercēnāriī | mercēnāriōrum | mercēnāriārum | mercēnāriōrum | |
| Dative | mercēnāriō | mercēnāriō | mercēnāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | mercēnārium | mercēnāriam | mercēnārium | mercēnāriōs | mercēnāriās | mercēnāria | |
| Ablative | mercēnāriō | mercēnāriā | mercēnāriō | mercēnāriīs | |||
| Vocative | mercēnārie | mercēnāria | mercēnārium | mercēnāriī | mercēnāriae | mercēnāria | |
Descendants
- Catalan: mercenari
- English: mercenary
- French: mercenaire
- Galician: mercenario
- Italian: mercenario
- Occitan: mercenari
- Portuguese: marceneiro, mercenário
- Spanish: mercenario
- Romanian: mercenar
- Translingual: Mercenaria
References
- “mercenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mercenarius 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)
- mercenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette