veredarius

Latin

Etymology

From verēdus (“fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛ.reːˈdaː.ri.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ve.reˈd̪aː.ri.us]

Noun

verēdārius m (genitive verēdāriī or verēdārī); second declension

A post boy, courier.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	verēdārius	verēdāriī
genitive	verēdāriī verēdārī¹	verēdāriōrum
dative	verēdāriō	verēdāriīs
accusative	verēdārium	verēdāriōs
ablative	verēdāriō	verēdāriīs
vocative	verēdārie	verēdāriī

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

Related terms

Descendants

Spanish: veredero, veredario
→ Byzantine Greek: βερηδάριος (berēdários), βερεδάριος (beredários), βεριδάριος (beridários), βεριδάρις (beridáris), βερεδάρις (beredáris)
- → Aramaic:
  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: בולדרא (buldārā), בלדרא (bildārā)
  
  Classical Syriac: ܒܝܠܕܪܐ (bildārā), ܒܠܝܕܪܐ (bəlīḏārā), ܒܝܠܝܕܪܐ (bilīḏārā), ܒܪܝܕܪܐ (bərīḏārā), ܒܘܪܕܪܐ (burdārā), ܒܪܘܕܪܐ (bərūḏārā), ܒܪܐܕܪܐ (bərēḏārā)
- → Mishnaic Hebrew: בולדר (buldār)

References

“veredarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"veredarius", 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)
veredarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“veredarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers