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mercēdŏnĭus

mercēdŏnĭus · adj

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What it meant

1. mercēdŏnĭus — Lewis & Short

mercēdŏnĭus, a, um, adj.1. merces-do,

I of or belonging to the payment of wages: Mercedonios (dies) dixerunt a mercede solvendā, on which wages are paid, pay-days, Paul. ex Fest. p. 124 Müll.—

II Subst.: mercēdŏnĭus, ii, m., a payer of wages, paymaster: mercedonius, qui solvit mercedem; † mercedarius (an employer), qui dat mercedem pro labore sibi impenso, Gloss. Isid. 37.

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2 Mercēdŏnĭus or Mercēdī-nus, = *merkhdo/nios, *merkedi=nos, mensis, an intercalary month of 22 or 23 days, inserted every two years in the calendar of Numa, Vet. Kalend. Rom. ap. Grut. 133; cf. so Laur. Lyd. de Mens. 4, 92.

2. mercēdŏnĭus — Lewis & Short

mercēdŏnĭus, a, um, adj.1. merces-do,

I of or belonging to the payment of wages: Mercedonios (dies) dixerunt a mercede solvendā, on which wages are paid, pay-days, Paul. ex Fest. p. 124 Müll.—

II Subst.: mercēdŏnĭus, ii, m., a payer of wages, paymaster: mercedonius, qui solvit mercedem; † mercedarius (an employer), qui dat mercedem pro labore sibi impenso, Gloss. Isid. 37.

3. Mercēdŏnĭus — Lewis & Short

Mercēdŏnĭus or Mercēdī-nus, = Μερκηδόνιος, Μερκεδῖνος, mensis, an intercalary month of 22 or 23 days, inserted every two years in the calendar of Numa, Vet. Kalend. Rom. ap. Grut. 133; cf. so Laur. Lyd. de Mens. 4, 92.

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