operarius

Latin

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos

Proto-Italic *opos

Latin opus

Latin opera

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -ārius

Latin operārius

From opera (“work, labor”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

operārius (feminine operāria, neuter operārium); first/second-declension adjective

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	operārius	operāria	operārium	operāriī	operāriae	operāria
genitive	operāriī	operāriae	operāriī	operāriōrum	operāriārum	operāriōrum
dative	operāriō	operāriae	operāriō	operāriīs
accusative	operārium	operāriam	operārium	operāriōs	operāriās	operāria
ablative	operāriō	operāriā	operāriō	operāriīs
vocative	operārie	operāria	operārium	operāriī	operāriae	operāria

operārius m (genitive operāriī or operārī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: operaio
  - → Piedmontese: operaj
  - → Sicilian: opiraiu, operaiu
Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: ovrié
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ovriér
- Old French: ovrier
  - French: ouvrier
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: obrer
- Occitan:
  - Auvergnat: obrièir
  - Gascon: obrèr
  - Languedocien: obrièr
  - Limousin: obrier
  - Provençal: obrier
  - Vivaro-Alpine: obrier
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: obrer
- Asturian: obreru, obleru
- Old Galician-Portuguese: obreiro
  - Galician: obreiro
  - Portuguese: obreiro
- Spanish: obrero
Borrowings:
- → Asturian: operariu
- → Catalan: operari
- → French: opéraire
- → Friulian: operari
- → Galician: operario
- → Piedmontese: operari
- → Portuguese: operário
- → Spanish: operario

“operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“operarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"operarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“operarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
http://www.piemonteis.eu/index.php
“operaj” in Grande Dizionario Piemontese Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication.
https://www.piemunteis.it/dep/dizionario.dep
https://web.archive.org/web/20230421123628/https://locongres.org/oc/aplicacions/dicodoc-oc