funerarius

Latin

Etymology

From fūnus (“funeral”) (oblique stem fūner-) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”, “pertaining to”, suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fūnerārius (feminine fūnerāria, neuter fūnerārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (relational, Late Latin) Of or pertaining to a funeral; funeral

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fūnerārius fūnerāria fūnerārium fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāria
Genitive fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāriī fūnerāriōrum fūnerāriārum fūnerāriōrum
Dative fūnerāriō fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
Accusative fūnerārium fūnerāriam fūnerārium fūnerāriōs fūnerāriās fūnerāria
Ablative fūnerāriō fūnerāriā fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
Vocative fūnerārie fūnerāria fūnerārium fūnerāriī fūnerāriae fūnerāria

Descendants

(all borrowings)

Noun

fūnerārius m (genitive fūnerāriī or fūnerārī); second declension

  1. undertaker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fūnerārius fūnerāriī
Genitive fūnerāriī
fūnerārī1		 fūnerāriōrum
Dative fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
Accusative fūnerārium fūnerāriōs
Ablative fūnerāriō fūnerāriīs
Vocative fūnerārie fūnerāriī

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

References
  • funerarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “funerarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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