essedarius

From essedum (a type of chariot) +‎ -ārius.

essedārius m (genitive essedāriī or essedārī); second declension

1. a Gaulish or Britannic charioteer
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.24:

     At barbarī, cōnsiliō Rōmānōrum cognitō, praemīssō equitātū et essedāriīs — quō plērumque genere in proeliīs ūtī consuērunt; reliquīs copiīs subsecūtī, nostrōs nāvibus ēgredī prohibēbant.

     But the barbarians, having understood the Romans’ plan, sent forward their cavalry and charioteers — a type of warfare which they generally were accustomed to employ in battles; [and] following closely with the rest of their forces, they sought to prevent our [men] from disembarking from the ships.

2. a gladiator who fights from a chariot

Second-declension noun.

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

• “essedarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “essedarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “essedarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.