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regionary

adj

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.

  1. learned borrowing from regionarius

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.

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

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

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

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