auxiliarius
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Latin
Etymology
From auxilium (“help”) + -ārius (“-er”).
Noun
auxiliārius m (genitive auxiliāriī or auxiliārī); second declension
- (in the plural) auxiliaries (troops)
- assistant
- ally
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | auxiliārius | auxiliāriī |
Genitive | auxiliāriī auxiliārī1 |
auxiliāriōrum |
Dative | auxiliāriō | auxiliāriīs |
Accusative | auxiliārium | auxiliāriōs |
Ablative | auxiliāriō | auxiliāriīs |
Vocative | auxiliārie | auxiliāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: auxiliary
- → Italian: ausiliario
References
- “auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auxiliarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auxiliarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.