The corpus record — Latin

macellarius

macellarius · adj

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

măcellārĭus, a, um, adj.macellum,

I of or belonging to the meat-market or provision-market: taberna, Val. Max. 3, 4, 4: negotiator artis macellariae, Inscr. Grut. 647, 5: ARS, Inscr. Orell. 4302.—Hence,

II Subst.: măcellārĭus, ĭi, m., a meat-seller, victualler: vendere apros macellario, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 11; 3, 4, 2; Suet. Caes. 26: macellarios adjuvare, id. Vesp. 19.

In the wild

macellarios Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 19.1
macellarius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 15.17.2
macellaria Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.4.4

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.