cancellarius

cancellarius

Latin

Etymology

From cancelli (“a door of bars”) +‎ -arius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kan.kelˈlaː.ri.us/, [käŋkɛlˈlʲäːriʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kan.t͡ʃelˈla.ri.us/, [kän̠ʲt͡ʃelˈläːrius]

Noun

cancellārius m (genitive cancellāriī or cancellārī); second declension

1. A kind of porter, doorkeeper.
2. A secretary.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cancellārius	cancellāriī
Genitive	cancellāriī cancellārī1	cancellāriōrum
Dative	cancellāriō	cancellāriīs
Accusative	cancellārium	cancellāriōs
Ablative	cancellāriō	cancellāriīs
Vocative	cancellārie	cancellāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: canceller
• Greek: καγκελάριος (kagkelários)
• Old French: chancelier
  • French: chancelier
  • → Middle English: chaunceler
    • English: chancellor
      • → Irish: seansailéir
  • → Old Spanish: chanciller
    • Spanish: canciller
• → German: Kanzler and → German: Kanzlei
• → Icelandic: kanslari
• Romanian: cancelar
• → Welsh: canghellor
• → Serbo-Croatian: kancelarija

Adjective

cancellārius (feminine cancellāria, neuter cancellārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. imprisoned (living or kept behind bars)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cancellārius	cancellāria	cancellārium		cancellāriī	cancellāriae	cancellāria
Genitive	cancellāriī	cancellāriae	cancellāriī		cancellāriōrum	cancellāriārum	cancellāriōrum
Dative	cancellāriō		cancellāriō		cancellāriīs
Accusative	cancellārium	cancellāriam	cancellārium		cancellāriōs	cancellāriās	cancellāria
Ablative	cancellāriō	cancellāriā	cancellāriō		cancellāriīs
Vocative	cancellārie	cancellāria	cancellārium		cancellāriī	cancellāriae	cancellāria

References

• “cancellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cancellarius 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)
• cancellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cancellarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cancellarius in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cancellarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Further reading

• “cancellarius1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cancellarius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chancellor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911