sortiarius

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sort- (“fate, fortune”) +‎ -ārius (occupational suffix), hence with an etymological sense of 'fortune-teller'. Attested in the writings of Hincmar.[1]

Noun

sortiārius m (genitive sortiāriī or sortiārī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. sorcerer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sortiārius sortiāriī
genitive sortiāriī
sortiārī1 		sortiāriōrum
dative sortiāriō sortiāriīs
accusative sortiārium sortiāriōs
ablative sortiāriō sortiāriīs
vocative sortiārie sortiāriī

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

Descendants

  • Old French: sorcier, sorchier (northern)
    • French: sorcier
    • Norman: chorchi
    • → Middle English: sorcerere, sorcerour, sorserer, sorcerer

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sortiarius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 981
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