sagittarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From sagitta (“arrow”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sa.ɡɪtˈtaː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sa.d͡ʒitˈtaː.ri.us] === Adjective === sagittārius (feminine sagittāria, neuter sagittārium); first/second-declension adjective armed with a bow and arrows of or concerning arrows ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== English: sagittary === Noun === sagittārius m (genitive sagittāriī or sagittārī); second declension archer, bowman fletcher, arrow-maker ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === Related terms === === References === “sagittarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sagittarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "sagittarius", 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) “sagittarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.