precarius

From prec- (“prayer, request”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɛˈkaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [preˈkaː.ri.us]

precārius (feminine precāria, neuter precārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. related to entreaty or petition
2. obtained by entreaty or by mere favor
3. doubtful, uncertain, precarious

First/second-declension adjective.

• precāria

• → Catalan: precari
• → English: precarious
• → French: précaire
• → Italian: precario
• → Occitan: precari
• → Portuguese: precário
• → Romanian: precar
• → Spanish: precario

• “precarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “precarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “precarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “precarious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.