apiarius

Latin

Etymology

apis (“a bee”) +‎ -ārius (“agent of use”, “-keeper”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

apiārius m (genitive apiāriī or apiārī); second declension

1. an apiarist, an apiculturist, a beekeeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apiārius	apiāriī
genitive	apiāriī apiārī1	apiāriōrum
dative	apiāriō	apiāriīs
accusative	apiārium	apiāriōs
ablative	apiāriō	apiāriīs
vocative	apiārie	apiāriī

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

Synonyms

• (apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper): cīdlārius (Mediaeval)

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: abialzu
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: apiaio
  • Sicilian: aparu

References

• “ăpĭārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ăpĭārĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 141/1.
• “apiārius” on page 147/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)