lignarius

Latin

Etymology

From lignum (“firewood”) ‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liɡˈnaː.ri.us/, [lʲɪŋˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liɲˈɲa.ri.us/, [liɲˈɲäːrius]

Adjective

lignārius (feminine lignāria, neuter lignārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or belonging to wood.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lignārius	lignāria	lignārium		lignāriī	lignāriae	lignāria
genitive	lignāriī	lignāriae	lignāriī		lignāriōrum	lignāriārum	lignāriōrum
dative	lignāriō	lignāriae	lignāriō		lignāriīs
accusative	lignārium	lignāriam	lignārium		lignāriōs	lignāriās	lignāria
ablative	lignāriō	lignāriā	lignāriō		lignāriīs
vocative	lignārie	lignāria	lignārium		lignāriī	lignāriae	lignāria

Noun

lignārius m (genitive lignāriī or lignārī); second declension

1. carpenter, joiner
2. wood carrier
3. woodcutter

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lignārius	lignāriī
genitive	lignāriī lignārī1	lignāriōrum
dative	lignāriō	lignāriīs
accusative	lignārium	lignāriōs
ablative	lignāriō	lignāriīs
vocative	lignārie	lignāriī

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

Related terms

• lignātiō
• lignātor
• ligneolus
• ligneus
• lignor
• lignum

Descendants

• Aromanian: limnar
• Portuguese: lenheiro
• Romanian: lemnar
• Spanish: leñero

References

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