veredarius

From verēdus (“fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯e.reːˈdaː.ri.us/, [u̯ɛreːˈd̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.reˈda.ri.us/, [vereˈd̪äːrius]

verēdārius m (genitive verēdāriī or verēdārī); second declension

1. A post boy, courier.

Second-declension noun.

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

• paraverēdus
• verēdus

• Spanish: veredero, veredario
• → Byzantine Greek: βερηδάριος (berēdários), βερεδάριος (beredários), βεριδάριος (beridários), βεριδάρις (beridáris), βερεδάρις (beredáris)
  • → Aramaic:

    Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: בולדרא (buldārā), בלדרא (bildārā)

    Classical Syriac: ܒܝܠܕܪܐ (bildārā), ܒܠܝܕܪܐ (bəlīḏārā), ܒܝܠܝܕܪܐ (bilīḏārā), ܒܪܝܕܪܐ (bərīḏārā), ܒܘܪܕܪܐ (burdārā), ܒܪܘܕܪܐ (bərūḏārā), ܒܪܐܕܪܐ (bərēḏārā)

  • → Mishnaic Hebrew: בולדר (buldār)

• “veredarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veredarius 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)
• veredarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “veredarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers