rorarii

Latin

Etymology

Apparently from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róh₁s; compare Old English rǣs (“running, race”), English race, Albanian resh (“to precipitate”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “quick motion, rush”).[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

rōrāriī m pl (genitive rōrāriōrum); second declension

  1. (military) Type of soldiers in the pre-Marian Roman army, probably fulfilling the role of skirmishers.

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative rōrāriī
genitive rōrāriōrum
dative rōrāriīs
accusative rōrāriōs
ablative rōrāriīs
vocative rōrāriī

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐρωή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469

Further reading

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