ostiarius
English
Etymology
Latin ostiārius
Noun
ostiarius (plural ostiarii)
- (historical) ostiary; doorman; porter
Latin
Etymology
From ostium (“door”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /os.tiˈaː.ri.us/, [ɔs̠t̪iˈäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /os.tiˈa.ri.us/, [ost̪iˈäːrius]
Adjective
ostiārius (feminine ostiāria, neuter ostiārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to a door
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ostiārius | ostiāria | ostiārium | ostiāriī | ostiāriae | ostiāria | |
| Genitive | ostiāriī | ostiāriae | ostiāriī | ostiāriōrum | ostiāriārum | ostiāriōrum | |
| Dative | ostiāriō | ostiāriō | ostiāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | ostiārium | ostiāriam | ostiārium | ostiāriōs | ostiāriās | ostiāria | |
| Ablative | ostiāriō | ostiāriā | ostiāriō | ostiāriīs | |||
| Vocative | ostiārie | ostiāria | ostiārium | ostiāriī | ostiāriae | ostiāria | |
Noun
ostiārius m (genitive ostiāriī or ostiārī); second declension
- porter, doorman
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ostiārius | ostiāriī |
| Genitive | ostiāriī ostiārī1 | ostiāriōrum |
| Dative | ostiāriō | ostiāriīs |
| Accusative | ostiārium | ostiāriōs |
| Ablative | ostiāriō | ostiāriīs |
| Vocative | ostiārie | ostiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- ostiātim
- ostiolum
- ostium
Descendants
- Aragonese: ostiero
- Catalan: uixer, → ostiari (learned)
- → English: ostiary
- → French: ostiaire
- Galician: ucheira
- Italian: ostiario, usciere
- Old French: ussier
- French: huissier
- → English: huissier
- → Spanish: ujier
- Anglo-Norman: usser
- → English: usher
- French: huissier
- → Old Irish: aistire
- Irish: aistire
- → Portuguese: ostiário
- Portuguese: ucheiro
- Romanian: ușar, ușier
- → Spanish: ostiario
References
- “ostiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ostiarius 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)
- ostiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “ostiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ostiarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin