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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₂eyos}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ae̯ˈraː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈraː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''aerārius''' (feminine aerāria, neuter aerārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|aes|-ārius|t1=copper, bronze, money]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨aes⟩ to [[itc-pro|*ajos]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂ei-os|t=bronze]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cato, of money, and Köbler cites Cicero for the noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ As an adjective it meant of copper or bronze, ''aerārium metallum'' a copper mine and ''faber aerārius'' a coppersmith, as in Vitruvius and Livy; and of coinage, money or the treasury, as in Cato and Varro's ''tribūnī aerāriī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it was a coppersmith, as in Petronius, and an ''aerārius'', a citizen of the lowest class, not enrolled in a tribe, who paid only a poll tax, as in Varro and Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Medieval Latin it was a coppersmith, brass-founder, moneyer, glossed in Ælfric with Old English ''ārsmiþ''.^(DMLBS)^(Niermeyer 1976) German ''ärarisch'' “of the state treasury” is from it.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of the lowest class of citizens.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a coppersmith.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of [[m|en|copper]] or [[m|en|bronze]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Of coinage, money or the [[m|en|treasury]].^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|coppersmith]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A citizen of the lowest class, paying only a poll tax.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[obaerārius]]
+ * [[aeraria]]
+ * [[aerārium]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[aes]]
+ * [[obaerātus]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}