bestiarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From bēstia (“beast”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [beːs.tiˈaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bes.tiˈaː.ri.us] === Noun === bēstiārius m (genitive bēstiāriī or bēstiārī); second declension one who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter (Can we verify(+) this sense?) a beastmaster ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === Adjective === bēstiārius (feminine bēstiāria, neuter bēstiārium); first/second-declension adjective of or pertaining to beasts ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Italian: bestiaio === References === “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bestiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "bestiarius", 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) “bestiarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.