hordearius

From hordeum (“barley”) +‎ -ārius

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔr.deˈaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [or.d̪eˈaː.ri.us]

hordeārius (feminine hordeāria, neuter hordeārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or relating to barley

First/second-declension adjective.

hordeārius m

1. (slang) gladiator
   • Pliny, Naturalis Historia 18.14:

     Antiquissimum in cibis hordeum, sicut Atheniensium ritu Menandro auctore apparet et gladiatorum cognomine, qui hordearii vocabantur.

     Barley is one of the most ancient aliments of man, a fact that is proved by a custom of the Athenians, mentioned by Menander, as also by the name of "hordearii," that used to be given to gladiators.

Second-declension noun.

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

• “hordearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hordearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hordearius", 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)
• hordearius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hordearius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hordearius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin