ancianus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ansiānus, anthiānus, anxiānus, anziānus antriānus (misspelling?) === Etymology === Borrowed from the Italian reflexes of Vulgar Latin *anteānus. Perhaps first attested in the Annales ianuenses (entry for 1230). === Noun === anciānus m (genitive anciānī); second declension (Medieval Latin, Italy, chiefly in the plural) a high-ranking city official a military or naval commander a overseer of a monastery the elders of the Albigeois sect ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === ancianus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “ancianus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 42 === Further reading === "ancianus", 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)