angarius

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγγαρος (ángaros, “Persian mounted courier”), from an uncertain non-Greek (probably Middle Eastern) source. Compare ἄγγελος (ángelos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡa.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡaː.ri.us]

Noun

angarius m (genitive angariī or angarī); second declension

1. courier, messenger

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	angarius	angariī
genitive	angariī angarī1	angariōrum
dative	angariō	angariīs
accusative	angarium	angariōs
ablative	angariō	angariīs
vocative	angarie	angariī

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

Derived terms

• angaria
• angariō

References

• “angarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "angarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “angarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.