obituarius

Latin

Etymology

From obitus (“a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death”) +‎ -ārius, from obīre (“to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.bi.tuˈaː.ri.us/, [ɔbɪt̪uˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.bi.tuˈa.ri.us/, [obit̪uˈäːrius]

Noun

obituārius m (genitive obituāriī or obituārī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) An obituary.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	obituārius	obituāriī
genitive	obituāriī obituārī1	obituāriōrum
dative	obituāriō	obituāriīs
accusative	obituārium	obituāriōs
ablative	obituāriō	obituāriīs
vocative	obituārī	obituāriī

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

Descendants

• → Catalan: obituari
• → English: obituary

References

• obituarius 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)