librarius

From Latin librārius.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /laɪˈbɹɛə.ɹi.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /laɪˈbɹɛ.ɹi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
• Homophone: librarious

librarius (plural librarii)

1. (historical) An ancient or medieval scribe, copyist, or secretary.
2. (historical) An ancient or medieval bookseller.

From liber (“book”) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lɪˈbraː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈbraː.ri.us]

librārius (feminine librāria, neuter librārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to books

First/second-declension adjective.

• librāriolus

librārius m (genitive librāriī or librārī, feminine librāria); second declension

1. a scribe, copyist, secretary
2. a bookseller

Second-declension noun.

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

• “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "librarius", 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)
• librarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “librarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers