quadrigarius

See also: Quadrigarius

Latin

Etymology

From quadrīgae (“four horse team”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa.driːˈɡaː.ri.us/, [kʷäd̪riːˈɡäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.driˈɡa.ri.us/, [kwäd̪riˈɡäːrius]

Adjective

quadrīgārius (feminine quadrīgāria, neuter quadrīgārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to a quadriga (four horse racing chariot)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	quadrīgārius	quadrīgāria	quadrīgārium		quadrīgāriī	quadrīgāriae	quadrīgāria
Genitive	quadrīgāriī	quadrīgāriae	quadrīgāriī		quadrīgāriōrum	quadrīgāriārum	quadrīgāriōrum
Dative	quadrīgāriō		quadrīgāriō		quadrīgāriīs
Accusative	quadrīgārium	quadrīgāriam	quadrīgārium		quadrīgāriōs	quadrīgāriās	quadrīgāria
Ablative	quadrīgāriō	quadrīgāriā	quadrīgāriō		quadrīgāriīs
Vocative	quadrīgārie	quadrīgāria	quadrīgārium		quadrīgāriī	quadrīgāriae	quadrīgāria

Noun

quadrīgārius m (genitive quadrīgāriī or quadrīgārī); second declension

1. a chariot racer, especially one who drives a quadriga

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quadrīgārius	quadrīgāriī
Genitive	quadrīgāriī quadrīgārī1	quadrīgāriōrum
Dative	quadrīgāriō	quadrīgāriīs
Accusative	quadrīgārium	quadrīgāriōs
Ablative	quadrīgāriō	quadrīgāriīs
Vocative	quadrīgārie	quadrīgāriī

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

Related terms

• quadrīgae
• quadrīgālis
• quadrīgātus
• quadrīgulae
• quadriiugis
• quadriiugus

References

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