semitarius

From sēmita (“path”) +‎ -ārius (adjective forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seː.miˈtaː.ri.us/, [s̠eːmɪˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.miˈta.ri.us/, [semiˈt̪äːrius]

sēmitārius (feminine sēmitāria, neuter sēmitārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) footpath, lane, byway, etc.
2. fond of byways

First/second-declension adjective.

Nominalization of etymology 1. Attested from 767 CE in a Lombard document.[1]

• santerius, senterius, senderius, senderium

sēmitārius m (genitive sēmitāriī or sēmitārī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. track

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• North Italian:
  • Emilian: sentér, sinter, sintir
  • Ligurian: sentê
  • Lombard: sentér
  • Piedmontese: senté, santé
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: sender, sendera
  • Franco-Provençal: sentiér
  • Old French: sentier
    • French: sentier
    • → Italian: sentiero
  • Gascon: sendèr, sendèir
  • Languedocien: sendièr
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sendeiro
    • Galician: sendeiro
    • Portuguese: sendeiro
  • Old Leonese: semedeiro
    • Asturian: senderu, sendeiru (western)
    • Leonese: sendeiru
  • Old Spanish: semdero, sendero
    • Spanish: sendero

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “senda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 204

• “sēmĭtārĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semitarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semitarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sēmĭtārĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,421/1.
• “sēmitārius” on page 1,732/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)