muliercularius
Latin
Etymology
From muliercula (“woman”, diminutive) + -ārius (“-er”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mu.li.er.kuˈlaː.ri.us/, [mʊlʲiɛrkʊˈɫ̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mu.li.er.kuˈla.ri.us/, [mulierkuˈläːrius]
Noun
mulierculārius m (genitive mulierculāriī or mulierculārī); second declension
- (colloquial) womanizer, philanderer
- Synonyms: mulierōsus, muliebrōsus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “muliercularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- muliercularius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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