lecticarius

From lectīca (“litter”) +‎ -ārius (“forming agent nouns”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɛk.tiːˈkaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lek.t̪iˈkaː.ri.us]

lectīcārius m (genitive lectīcāriī or lectīcārī); second declension

1. A litter-bearer, typically an attractive slave well-dressed in red and particularly the public porters employed to carry funereal litters to gravesites under the late empire
2. (inexact) A sedan-bearer

Second-declension noun.

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

• lectīcula

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