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bestiarius
bestiarius
Latin
Noun
bēstiārius m (genitive bēstiāriī); second declension
- a person who fights with wild beasts in the arena
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bēstiārius | bēstiāriī |
| genitive | bēstiāriī bēstiārī1 |
bēstiāriōrum |
| dative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs |
| accusative | bēstiārium | bēstiāriōs |
| ablative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs |
| vocative | bēstiārī | bēstiāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- French: bestiaire
Adjective
bēstiārius m (feminine bēstiāria, neuter bēstiārium); first/second declension
- involving wild beasts
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | bēstiārius | bēstiāria | bēstiārium | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāria | |
| genitive | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriōrum | bēstiāriārum | bēstiāriōrum | |
| dative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs | ||||
| accusative | bēstiārium | bēstiāriam | bēstiārium | bēstiāriōs | bēstiāriās | bēstiāria | |
| ablative | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriā | bēstiāriō | bēstiāriīs | |||
| vocative | bēstiārie | bēstiāria | bēstiārium | bēstiāriī | bēstiāriae | bēstiāria | |
References
- bestiarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bestiarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- BESTIARIUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bestiarius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.