diaetarius
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.ae̯ˈtaː.ri.us/, [d̪iäe̯ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.eˈta.ri.us/, [d̪ieˈt̪äːrius]
Noun
[edit]diaetārius m (genitive diaetāriī or diaetārī); second declension
- a slave responsible for room service, a valet-de-chambre
- a cabin steward on a ship
- (Late Latin) a slave or servant who serves at the dining table, a table waiter
- (Medieval Latin, by misassociation with diēs, “a day”) a day-labourer
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | diaetārius | diaetāriī |
| genitive | diaetāriī diaetārī1 |
diaetāriōrum |
| dative | diaetāriō | diaetāriīs |
| accusative | diaetārium | diaetāriōs |
| ablative | diaetāriō | diaetāriīs |
| vocative | diaetārie | diaetāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
[edit]- (valet-de-chambre): diaetarchēs
Descendants
[edit]- Ancient Greek: δῐαιτᾱ́ρῐος (diaitā́rios)
References
[edit]- “dĭaetārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- DIÆTARII 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)
- dĭætārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 517/3.
- “diaetārius” on page 535/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dietarius (subst.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 330/1