rorarii

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs (compare Old English rǣs (“running, race”), English race (from Old Norse and Germanic root shared with previous) Albanian resh (“to precipitate”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “quick motion, rush”)).

rōrāriī m pl (genitive rōrāriōrum); second declension

1. (military) Type of soldiers in the pre-Marian Roman army, probably fulfilling the role of skirmishers.

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• “rorarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rorarii”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rorarii”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rorarii”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin