laquearius

Latin

Etymology

From laquear (“panelled ceiling”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /la.kʷeˈaː.ri.us/, [ɫ̪äkʷeˈäːriʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la.kweˈa.ri.us/, [läkweˈäːrius]

Noun

laqueārius m (genitive laqueāriī or laqueārī); second declension

  1. a maker of paneled ceilings.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative laqueārius laqueāriī
Genitive laqueāriī
laqueārī1		 laqueāriōrum
Dative laqueāriō laqueāriīs
Accusative laqueārium laqueāriōs
Ablative laqueāriō laqueāriīs
Vocative laqueārie laqueāriī

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

Descendants
  • Italian: laqueario

References
  • “laquearius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • laquearius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “laquearius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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