Latin

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Etymology

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From pecu-ārius.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pecuārius (feminine pecuāria, neuter pecuārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (relational) sheep, cattle

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: pecuari
  • Galician: pecuario
  • Portuguese: pecuário
  • Spanish: pecuario

References

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  • pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pecuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pecuarius 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)
  • pecuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)