luparius

Latin

Etymology

lupus (wolf) + -ārius (suffix forming agent nouns)

Pronunciation

Noun

lupārius m (genitive lupāriī or lupārī); second declension

  1. (Classical Latin) a wolf-hunter
  2. (Medieval Latin) a wolfhound

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lupārius lupāriī
Genitive lupāriī
lupārī1
lupāriōrum
Dative lupāriō lupāriīs
Accusative lupārium lupāriōs
Ablative lupāriō lupāriīs
Vocative lupārie lupāriī

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

Descendants

  • Spanish: lobero
  • Portuguese: lobeiro

References

  • lŭpārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • luparius 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)
  • luparius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 623/1, “luparius”
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