librarius

English

Etymology

Latin librārius

Noun

librarius (plural librarii)

1. (historical) An ancient or medieval scribe, copyist, or secretary.
2. (historical) An ancient or medieval bookseller.

Latin

Etymology

From liber (“book”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liˈbraː.ri.us/, [lʲɪˈbräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈbra.ri.us/, [liˈbräːrius]

Adjective

librārius (feminine librāria, neuter librārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to books

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	librārius	librāria	librārium		librāriī	librāriae	librāria
Genitive	librāriī	librāriae	librāriī		librāriōrum	librāriārum	librāriōrum
Dative	librāriō		librāriō		librāriīs
Accusative	librārium	librāriam	librārium		librāriōs	librāriās	librāria
Ablative	librāriō	librāriā	librāriō		librāriīs
Vocative	librārie	librāria	librārium		librāriī	librāriae	librāria

Derived terms

• librāriolus

Descendants

• Asturian: llibreru
• Catalan: llibrer
• French: libraire
• Friulian: librâr
• Galician: libreiro
• Italian: libraio, librario
• Occitan: librari
• Portuguese: livreiro
• Romanian: librar
• Sicilian: libbraru
• Spanish: librero
• Venetian: łibrer, librer

Noun

librārius m (genitive librāriī or librārī, feminine librāria); second declension

1. a scribe, copyist, secretary
2. a bookseller

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	librārius	librāriī
Genitive	librāriī librārī1	librāriōrum
Dative	librāriō	librāriīs
Accusative	librārium	librāriōs
Ablative	librāriō	librāriīs
Vocative	librārie	librāriī

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

References

• “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “librarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• librarius 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)
• librarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “librarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers