escarius

escarius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin ēsca
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -ārius
Latin ēscārius

    From ēsca (“food; bait”) + -ārius (“relational adjective suffix”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    ēscārius (feminine ēscāria, neuter ēscārium); first/second-declension adjective

    1. of or pertaining to food, bait or eating

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative ēscārius ēscāria ēscārium ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāria
    genitive ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāriī ēscāriōrum ēscāriārum ēscāriōrum
    dative ēscāriō ēscāriae ēscāriō ēscāriīs
    accusative ēscārium ēscāriam ēscārium ēscāriōs ēscāriās ēscāria
    ablative ēscāriō ēscāriā ēscāriō ēscāriīs
    vocative ēscārie ēscāria ēscārium ēscāriī ēscāriae ēscāria

    Derived terms

    Further reading

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