eborarius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-
Egyptian ꜣbw
Demotic Egyptian ybbor.
Latin ebur
Latin -ārius
Latin eborarius

    From ebur (“ivory”) +‎ -ārius (agent noun suffix).

    Noun

    eborārius m (genitive eborāriī or eborārī); second declension

    1. ivory worker

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative eborārius eborāriī
    genitive eborāriī
    eborārī1     		eborāriōrum
    dative eborāriō eborāriīs
    accusative eborārium eborāriōs
    ablative eborāriō eborāriīs
    vocative eborārie eborāriī

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

    References

    • “eborarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “eborarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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