ostiarius

Borrowed from Latin ōstiārius.

ostiarius (plural ostiarii)

1. (historical) ostiary; doorman; porter

From ōstium (“door”) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːs.tiˈaː.ri.us/, [oːs̠t̪iˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /os.tiˈa.ri.us/, [ost̪iˈäːrius]

ōstiārius (feminine ōstiāria, neuter ōstiārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to a door

First/second-declension adjective.

ōstiārius m (genitive ōstiāriī or ōstiārī); second declension

1. porter, doorman

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• ōstiātim
• ōstiolum

• “ostiarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostiarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ostiarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ostiarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ostiarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin