commentarius

Latin

Etymology

    From commentor + -ārius.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    commentārius m (genitive commentāriī or commentārī); second declension

    1. memorandum, notebook
      Commentarii de Bello Gallico ― Commentaries on the Gallic War (written by Julius Caesar)
    2. diary, journal
    3. (law) a brief

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative commentārius commentāriī
    genitive commentāriī
    commentārī1     		commentāriōrum
    dative commentāriō commentāriīs
    accusative commentārium commentāriōs
    ablative commentāriō commentāriīs
    vocative commentārie commentāriī

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

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    References

    • “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “commentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “commentarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
    • “commentarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • commentarius in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
    • “commentarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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