operarius
Latin
Etymology
From opera (“work, labor”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /o.peˈraː.ri.us/, [ɔpɛˈräːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.peˈra.ri.us/, [opeˈräːrius]
Adjective
operārius (feminine operāria, neuter operārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) labouring, working
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | operārius | operāria | operārium | operāriī | operāriae | operāria | |
| Genitive | operāriī | operāriae | operāriī | operāriōrum | operāriārum | operāriōrum | |
| Dative | operāriō | operāriō | operāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | operārium | operāriam | operārium | operāriōs | operāriās | operāria | |
| Ablative | operāriō | operāriā | operāriō | operāriīs | |||
| Vocative | operārie | operāria | operārium | operāriī | operāriae | operāria | |
Noun
operārius m (genitive operāriī or operārī); second declension
- labourer, worker
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | operārius | operāriī |
| Genitive | operāriī operārī1 | operāriōrum |
| Dative | operāriō | operāriīs |
| Accusative | operārium | operāriōs |
| Ablative | operāriō | operāriīs |
| Vocative | operārie | operāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: operaio
- → Piedmontese: operaj
- → Sicilian: opiraiu, operaiu
- Italian: operaio
- Padanian:
- Piedmontese: ovrié
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ovriér
- Old French: ovrier
- French: ouvrier
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: obrer
- Catalan: obrer
- Occitan:
- Auvergnat: obrièir
- Gascon: obrèr
- Languedocien: obrièr
- Limousin: obrier
- Provençal: obrier
- Vivaro-Alpine: obrier
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: obreru
- Galician: obreiro
- Portuguese: obreiro
- Spanish: obrero
- Borrowings:
- → Asturian: operariu
- → Catalan: operari
- → French: opéraire
- → Friulian: operari
- → Galician: operario
- → Piedmontese: operari
- → Portuguese: operário
- → Spanish: operario
References
- “operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- operarius 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)
- operarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- http://www.piemonteis.eu/index.php
- https://www.piemonteis.com/dizionario-italiano-piemontese.php?parola=Operaio
- https://www.piemunteis.it/dep/dizionario.dep
- https://locongres.org/oc/aplicacions/dicodoc-oc