cetarius

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Latin

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Etymology

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cētus +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cētārius (feminine cētāria, neuter cētārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. pertaining to fish

Usage notes

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In Classical Latin this adjective is only found in substantive forms, including cētārius m (fishmonger) (see below); cētāriae f pl, used by Pliny to mean "fisheries"; and cētārium n (fish pond) (once in Horace).

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

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cētārius m (genitive cētāriī or cētārī); second declension

  1. fishmonger

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

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

References

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  • cetarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cetarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers