sagmarius

Latin

Alternative forms

saumarius, salmarius
somarius, sommarius, sumarius, summarius (Medieval)

Etymology

From sagma (“pack saddle”) +‎ -ārius, from Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

(Late Latin) sagmārius (feminine sagmāria, neuter sagmārium); first/second-declension adjective

(of horses or mules) relating to or having a pack saddle, to carrying loads

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular				plural
nominative	sagmārius	sagmāria	sagmārium		sagmāriī	sagmāriae	sagmāria
genitive	sagmāriī	sagmāriae	sagmāriī		sagmāriōrum	sagmāriārum	sagmāriōrum
dative	sagmāriō	sagmāriae	sagmāriō		sagmāriīs
accusative	sagmārium	sagmāriam	sagmārium		sagmāriōs	sagmāriās	sagmāria
ablative	sagmāriō	sagmāriā	sagmāriō		sagmāriīs
vocative	sagmārie	sagmāria	sagmārium		sagmāriī	sagmāriae	sagmāria

Descendants

⇒ Vulgar Latin: saumārius
- Italo-Dalmatian:
  - Dalmatian: samur
  - Istriot: samèri
  - Italian: somaro
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Northern:
    - Old French: somier
      - French: sommier
        → Spanish: somier
      - → Italian: somiere
    - Anglo-Norman: summer
      - → Middle English: sumer
        English: summer (“pack horse; horizontal beam”)
  - Southern:
    - Catalan: somer
    - Occitan: saumièr
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Portuguese: someiro
⇒ Vulgar Latin: saumāria (“she-ass”)
- Italo-Dalmatian:
  - Italian: somara
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: sumara, sumèra
  - Lombard: somara
- Franco-Provençal: somâra (Valdôtain)
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Old Catalan: saumera
    - Catalan: somera
→ Tashelhit: tagwmart

Further reading

“sagmarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sagmarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers