vicarius

Latin

Etymology

From vicis (interchange, alternation) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vicārius (feminine vicāria, neuter vicārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. vicarious, substituted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative vicārius vicāria vicārium vicāriī vicāriae vicāria
genitive vicāriī vicāriae vicāriī vicāriōrum vicāriārum vicāriōrum
dative vicāriō vicāriae vicāriō vicāriīs
accusative vicārium vicāriam vicārium vicāriōs vicāriās vicāria
ablative vicāriō vicāriā vicāriō vicāriīs
vocative vicārie vicāria vicārium vicāriī vicāriae vicāria

Noun

vicārius m (genitive vicāriī or vicārī); second declension

  1. substitute, proxy, deputy
  2. (Roman Catholicism) vicar

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • vicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "vicarius", 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)
  • vicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.