vaccarius

Latin

Etymology

From vacca (cow) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns). Attested in the Pactus Alamannorum.[1]

Adjective

vaccārius (feminine vaccāria, neuter vaccārium); first/second-declension adjective (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. of or pertaining to a cow.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative vaccārius vaccāria vaccārium vaccāriī vaccāriae vaccāria
genitive vaccāriī vaccāriae vaccāriī vaccāriōrum vaccāriārum vaccāriōrum
dative vaccāriō vaccāriae vaccāriō vaccāriīs
accusative vaccārium vaccāriam vaccārium vaccāriōs vaccāriās vaccāria
ablative vaccāriō vaccāriā vaccāriō vaccāriīs
vocative vaccārie vaccāria vaccārium vaccāriī vaccāriae vaccāria

Noun

vaccārius m (genitive vaccāriī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. cowherd

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: vãcar
    • Romanian: văcar
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: vaquer
    • Franco-Provençal: vachier
    • French: vacher
    • Occitan: vaquièr
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vaccarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1057