tabellarius

From tabella (“letter”) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ta.bɛlˈlaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪a.belˈlaː.ri.us]

tabellārius (feminine tabellāria, neuter tabellārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) tablets, letters

First/second-declension adjective.

tabellārius m (genitive tabellāriī or tabellārī); second declension

1. letter carrier, mail carrier, courier, mailman, postman

Second-declension noun.

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

• tabella

• “tabellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tabellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tabellarius", 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)
• tabellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tabellarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabellarius in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “tabellarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin