vehicularis

Forms

vehiculāris (neuter vehiculāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^[1][2]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin vehiculum + -āris.^[3][1] The noun vehiculum “wheeled vehicle” is from vehō “to convey”.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The jurist Arcadius Charisius, quoted in the Digest, uses it of the public transport service: munus vehicularis rei, the duty of providing transport.^[3][1][5]

Semantic evolution

It stayed a term of Roman administrative law, as in cursus vehicularis, the public post.^[3][1] An inscription of 301 AD from the province of Asia has it.^[6] Ammianus Marcellinus has the parallel form vehicularius.^[2][7]

Timeline

• after 331 AD – Arcadius Charisius, in the Digest, speaks of the munus vehicularis rei.^[3][5]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of or relating to vehicles or transport; in res vehicularis and cursus vehicularis, the public post.^[3][1][7]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
2. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
3. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ Kaše, Vojtěch; Heřmánková, Petra; Sobotková, Adéla et al. (2024), LIST: Latin Inscriptions in Space and Time, v1.2 (EDCS + EDH), Aarhus: SDAM, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10473706
7. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier