apiarius

apis (“a bee”) +‎ -ārius (“agent of use”, “-keeper”)

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

apiārius m (genitive apiāriī or apiārī); second declension

1. an apiarist, an apiculturist, a beekeeper

Second-declension noun.

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

• (apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper): cīdlārius (Mediaeval)

• Italian: apiaio
• Sardinian: abialzu
• Sicilian: aparu

• “ăpĭārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ăpĭārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 141/1.
• “apiārius” on page 147/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)