adversarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From adversus + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ad.wɛrˈsaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ad.verˈsaː.ri.us] === Noun === adversārius m (genitive adversāriī or adversārī); second declension opponent, rival adversary, antagonist, enemy ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === Adjective === adversārius (feminine adversāria, neuter adversārium); first/second-declension adjective adverse, hostile factiō adversāria ― the opposition ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “adversarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adversarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “adversarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “adversarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “adversarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin