Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

regionary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-gionary
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.

noun

Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”).

noun

A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.

Example Sentences

"Not surprisingly, the regionary magistrates do not appear very often in the historians: not every aedile turned out like Vespasian."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

Word Breakdown

Root: *h₃reǵ-
Suffix: region

Inflected Forms

regionaries (plural)

Synonyms

regionarius

Questions

What does regionary mean?: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
Where does regionary come from?: Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

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