hebdomadarius

Latin

Etymology

From hebdomas (“week”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

hebdomadārius m (genitive hebdomadāriī or hebdomadārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) hebdomadary (holder of a week-long duty in a convent)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hebdomadārius	hebdomadāriī
genitive	hebdomadāriī hebdomadārī1	hebdomadāriōrum
dative	hebdomadāriō	hebdomadāriīs
accusative	hebdomadārium	hebdomadāriōs
ablative	hebdomadāriō	hebdomadāriīs
vocative	hebdomadārie	hebdomadāriī

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

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Old Catalan: domer
    • → Sardinian: domeri
  • >? Old French: edomoire, domas
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: hebdomadari
  • → English: hebdomadary
  • → French: hebdomadier, hebdomadaire
  • → Italian: ebdomadario
  • → Old Occitan: ebdomadier, ebdomadaria
  • → Portuguese: hebdomadário
  • → Romanian: hebdomadar
  • → Spanish: hebdomadario

References

• hebdomadarius 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)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hebdomadarius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 395
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “hebdomas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 302