avicularius

Latin

Etymology

From avicula (“little bird”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.wɪ.kʊˈɫaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.vi.kuˈlaː.ri.us]

Noun

aviculārius m (genitive aviculāriī or aviculārī); second declension

1. a bird-keeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aviculārius	aviculāriī
genitive	aviculāriī aviculārī1	aviculāriōrum
dative	aviculāriō	aviculāriīs
accusative	aviculārium	aviculāriōs
ablative	aviculāriō	aviculāriīs
vocative	aviculārie	aviculāriī

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

Synonyms

• aviārius

Related terms

• aucella, avicella
• auceps
• aviārium
• aviārius
• avicula
• avipēs
• avis

References

• “avicularius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "avicularius", 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)
• “avicularius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.