casearius

Latin

Alternative forms

• cāsiārius

Etymology

From cāseus (“cheese”) +‎ -ārius (relational suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaː.seˈaː.ri.us/, [käːs̠eˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.seˈa.ri.us/, [käs̬eˈäːrius]

Adjective

cāseārius (feminine cāseāria, neuter cāseārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to cheese

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cāseārius	cāseāria	cāseārium		cāseāriī	cāseāriae	cāseāria
genitive	cāseāriī	cāseāriae	cāseāriī		cāseāriōrum	cāseāriārum	cāseāriōrum
dative	cāseāriō	cāseāriae	cāseāriō		cāseāriīs
accusative	cāseārium	cāseāriam	cāseārium		cāseāriōs	cāseāriās	cāseāria
ablative	cāseāriō	cāseāriā	cāseāriō		cāseāriīs
vocative	cāseārie	cāseāria	cāseārium		cāseāriī	cāseāriae	cāseāria

Descendants

• Portuguese: queijeiro
• Spanish: quesero
• → Italian: caseario
• ⇒ Late Latin: taberna cāseāria (“lodge for cheese-making”)
  • Aromanian: cãshari, cãshare
  • Franco-Provençal: tchijièri
  • Ladin: ciasèra
  • Lombard: casèra
  • Piedmontese: casèra
  • Portuguese: queijeira

Noun

cāseārius m (genitive cāseāriī or cāseārī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. cheesemonger
2. a wicker basket in which cheese is dried

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cāseārius	cāseāriī
genitive	cāseāriī cāseārī1	cāseāriōrum
dative	cāseāriō	cāseāriīs
accusative	cāseārium	cāseāriōs
ablative	cāseāriō	cāseāriīs
vocative	cāseārie	cāseāriī

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãshar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: caciaio

    Central Italian: caciaru, caciaro

• North Italian:
  • Emilian: casar
    • → Italian: casaro
  • Friulian: cjasâr
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chasier, chasiere (“cheese-basket”)
    • French: casier
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: queijeiro
  • Spanish: quesero

References

• “cāsĕārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• casearius 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)
• cāsĕārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 270/2.
• “cāsiārius” on page 280/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “casearius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 152/1
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caseus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 457