bestiarius

Latin

Etymology

From bēstia (“beast”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Noun

bēstiārius m (genitive bēstiāriī or bēstiārī); second declension

  1. one who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) a beastmaster

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bēstiārius bēstiāriī
genitive bēstiāriī
bēstiārī1 		bēstiāriōrum
dative bēstiāriō bēstiāriīs
accusative bēstiārium bēstiāriōs
ablative bēstiāriō bēstiāriīs
vocative bēstiārie bēstiāriī

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

Adjective

bēstiārius (feminine bēstiāria, neuter bēstiārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to beasts

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative bēstiārius bēstiāria bēstiārium bēstiāriī bēstiāriae bēstiāria
genitive bēstiāriī bēstiāriae bēstiāriī bēstiāriōrum bēstiāriārum bēstiāriōrum
dative bēstiāriō bēstiāriae bēstiāriō bēstiāriīs
accusative bēstiārium bēstiāriam bēstiārium bēstiāriōs bēstiāriās bēstiāria
ablative bēstiāriō bēstiāriā bēstiāriō bēstiāriīs
vocative bēstiārie bēstiāria bēstiārium bēstiāriī bēstiāriae bēstiāria

Descendants

  • ⇒ Italian: bestiaio

References

  • “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "bestiarius", 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)
  • bestiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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