rorarii

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs (compare Old English rǣs (“running, race”), Albanian resh (“to precipitate”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “quick motion, rush”)).

Noun

rōrāriī m pl (genitive rōrāriōrum); second declension

(military) Type of soldiers in the pre-Marian Roman army, probably fulfilling the role of skirmishers.

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Plural
Nominative	rōrāriī
Genitive	rōrāriōrum
Dative	rōrāriīs
Accusative	rōrāriōs
Ablative	rōrāriīs
Vocative	rōrāriī

References

rorarii in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
rorarii in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
rorarii in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
rorarii in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin