vicarius

Latin

Etymology

From vicis (“interchange, alternation”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vicārius (feminine vicāria, neuter vicārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. vicarious, substituted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative vicārius vicāria vicārium vicāriī vicāriae vicāria
Genitive vicāriī vicāriae vicāriī vicāriōrum vicāriārum vicāriōrum
Dative vicāriō vicāriō vicāriīs
Accusative vicārium vicāriam vicārium vicāriōs vicāriās vicāria
Ablative vicāriō vicāriā vicāriō vicāriīs
Vocative vicārie vicāria vicārium vicāriī vicāriae vicāria

Noun

vicārius m (genitive vicāriī or vicārī); second declension

  1. substitute, proxy, deputy
  2. (Roman Catholicism) vicar

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vicārius vicāriī
Genitive vicāriī
vicārī1		 vicāriōrum
Dative vicāriō vicāriīs
Accusative vicārium vicāriōs
Ablative vicāriō vicāriīs
Vocative vicārie vicāriī

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

Derived terms

Descendants
Descendants of vicarius in other languages

References
  • “vicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vicarius 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)
  • vicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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