caprarius

Latin

Etymology

From caper (“goat”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

caprārius (feminine caprāria, neuter caprārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) goat

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	caprārius	caprāria	caprārium		caprāriī	caprāriae	caprāria
genitive	caprāriī	caprāriae	caprāriī		caprāriōrum	caprāriārum	caprāriōrum
dative	caprāriō	caprāriae	caprāriō		caprāriīs
accusative	caprārium	caprāriam	caprārium		caprāriōs	caprāriās	caprāria
ablative	caprāriō	caprāriā	caprāriō		caprāriīs
vocative	caprārie	caprāria	caprārium		caprāriī	caprāriae	caprāria

Noun

caprārius m (genitive caprāriī or caprārī); second declension

1. goatherd

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caprārius	caprāriī
genitive	caprāriī caprārī1	caprāriōrum
dative	caprāriō	caprāriīs
accusative	caprārium	caprāriōs
ablative	caprāriō	caprāriīs
vocative	caprārie	caprāriī

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

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãprar
• Catalan: cabrer
• French: chevrier
• Friulian: cjavrâr
• Italian: capraio
• Occitan: cabrièr
• Portuguese: cabreiro
• Romanian: căprar
• Sardinian: crabarzu, cabràrgiu, cabraxu
• Sicilian: craparu
• Spanish: cabrero, caprario (borrowing)
• Venetan: caorèro

References

• “caprarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caprarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caprarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray