commentarius

Latin

Etymology

From commentor +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kom.menˈtaː.ri.us/, [kɔmːɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.menˈta.ri.us/, [komːen̪ˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

commentārius m (genitive commentāriī or commentārī); second declension

1. memorandum, notebook

   Commentarii de Bello Gallico ― Commentaries on the Gallic War (written by Julius Caesar)

2. diary, journal
3. (law) a brief

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	commentārius	commentāriī
Genitive	commentāriī commentārī1	commentāriōrum
Dative	commentāriō	commentāriīs
Accusative	commentārium	commentāriōs
Ablative	commentāriō	commentāriīs
Vocative	commentārie	commentāriī

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

Derived terms

• commentāriolum

Descendants

• Catalan: comentari
• English: commentary
• French: commentaire
• Galician: comentario
• → German: Kommentar (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: comentário
• Romanian: comentariu
• Spanish: comentario

References

• “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commentarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
    
• “commentarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commentarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “commentarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin