agaso

Possibly from Etruscan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡaː.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈɡaː.s̬o]

agāsō m (genitive agāsōnis); third declension

1. a driver, especially one who drives and takes care of horses; groom, hostler, stable boy
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.14:

     […] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.

     […] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.

2. (disrespectfully) a (low) servant, lackey

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: agasone
• Sardinian: agasone, asone, basone, basoni, gasone

• “agaso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agaso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "agaso", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “agaso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “agaso”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “agaso”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin