pullarius

From pullus +‎ -ārius.

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

pullārius (feminine pullāria, neuter pullārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to young chicks, esp. as used in divination

First/second-declension adjective.

• Galician: poleiro
• Italian: pollaio
• Portuguese: poleiro
• Sicilian: puddaru
• Spanish: pollero

pullārius m (genitive pullāriī or pullārī, feminine pullāria); second declension

1. a keeper of sacred chickens (for the augur)
2. (euphemistic) a boylover

Second-declension noun.

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

• → Italian: pollario

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