ferentarius

== Latin == === Etymology === According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, strike”). Cognate with Latin feriō (“to hit”), Latin forō (“to bore”), English berry (“to beat, thrash”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɛ.rɛnˈtaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fe.renˈtaː.ri.us] === Noun === ferentārius m (genitive ferentāriī or ferentārī); second declension (military) A member of a sort of light troop, who fought with missile weapons ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== See also ==== rorarii === References === “ferentarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ferentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press