lecticarius

Latin

Lecticarii at work

Etymology

From lectīca (“litter”) +‎ -ārius (“forming agent nouns”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lek.tiːˈkaː.ri.us/, [ɫ̪ɛkt̪iːˈkäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lek.tiˈka.ri.us/, [lekt̪iˈkäːrius]

Noun

lectīcārius m (genitive lectīcāriī or lectīcārī); second declension

1. A litter-bearer, typically an attractive slave well-dressed in red and particularly the public porters employed to carry funereal litters to gravesites under the late empire
2. (inexact) A sedan-bearer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lectīcārius	lectīcāriī
genitive	lectīcāriī lectīcārī1	lectīcāriōrum
dative	lectīcāriō	lectīcāriīs
accusative	lectīcārium	lectīcāriōs
ablative	lectīcāriō	lectīcāriīs
vocative	lectīcārie	lectīcāriī

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

Related terms

• lectīcula

References

• “lecticarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lecticarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lecticarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “lecticarius”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.