lecticarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From lectīca (“litter”) +‎ -ārius (“forming agent nouns”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɛk.tiːˈkaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lek.tiˈkaː.ri.us] === Noun === lectīcārius m (genitive lectīcāriī or lectīcārī); second declension A litter-bearer, typically an attractive slave well-dressed in red and particularly the public porters employed to carry funereal litters to gravesites under the late empire (inexact) A sedan-bearer ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== lectīcula === References === “lecticarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lecticarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lecticarius", 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) “lecticarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.