regionary
English
Etymology
From neo-Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiōn- + -ārius.
Adjective
regionary (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
- 2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175:
- Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian.
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