Sacratorius

Latin

Etymology

    Perhaps from sacrātor +‎ -ius. However, since the name is attested in Capua, it may actually be derived from an Oscan agent noun equivalent to sacrātor.

    Pronunciation

    Proper noun

    Sacrātōrius m sg (genitive Sacrātōriī or Sacrātōrī); second declension

    1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name"
      • CIL 10, 503:
        Tudiciae M(arci) l(ibertae) Crotini / C(aius) Sacratorius Cinna / uxori et suis posteris
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • BCAR-1923-125:
        Sacrator[ius] / N(umeri) et
        (mulieris) [l(ibertus)] / Speratus
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Declension

    Second-declension noun, singular only.

    singular
    nominative Sacrātōrius
    genitive Sacrātōriī
    Sacrātōrī1
    dative Sacrātōriō
    accusative Sacrātōrium
    ablative Sacrātōriō
    vocative Sacrātōrī

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

    • Sacrātōria

    References

    • Margaret M. T. Watmough (1995), “The Suffix -tor-: Agent-Noun Formation in Latin and the Other Italic Languages”, in Glotta[1], volume 73, number 1/4, →ISSN, page 101
    • Walter Friedrich Otto (1898), Nomina propria Latina oriunda a participiis perfecti[2] (in Latin), Teubner, page 840
    • Beryl Rawson (1991), Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome[3] (in Latin), Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 172
    • Linda M. Gigante; George W. Houston (2008), “A Collection of Inscriptions from the Via Salaria Necropolis Now in the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome[4], volume 53, →ISSN, pages 27–78