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regionary en · ADJ

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
   • Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian. 2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175:

regionary en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

Meanings

1. (historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”).
2. (historical) A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.

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regionarius