viocurus

Latin

Etymology

via (“road, street”) +‎ cūrō (“I take care”) +‎ -us. Varro (de lingua latina 5.7) mentions this word as an example to illustrate the lowest grade of etymological difficulty, "whither even the common people's intellect reaches" (īnfimus quō populus etiam venit: quis enim nōn videt unde argentifodīnae et viocūrus?).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wi.ɔˈkuː.rʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.oˈkuː.rus]

Noun

viocūrus m (genitive viocūrī); second declension

overseer and constructor of roads

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	viocūrus	viocūrī
genitive	viocūrī	viocūrōrum
dative	viocūrō	viocūrīs
accusative	viocūrum	viocūrōs
ablative	viocūrō	viocūrīs
vocative	viocūre	viocūrī

References

viocurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
viocurus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
“viocurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press