baccalarius
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Latin
[edit ]Alternative forms
[edit ]- baccalāris , baccallārius
- baccalaureus (academic grade)
Etymology
[edit ]Unknown; suggested to be from baccalia ("herd of cows") + -ārius , with the original meaning of "cowherd", from vacca ("cow"),[1] [2] though this requires a Romance v > b sound change.
Noun
[edit ]baccalārius m (genitive baccalāriī ); second declension [3] [4] (Medieval Latin )
- unenfeoffed vassal, knight with no retainers
- landless serf
- apprentice
- bachelor (academic grade)
Declension
[edit ]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | baccalārius | baccalāriī |
| genitive | baccalāriī | baccalāriōrum |
| dative | baccalāriō | baccalāriīs |
| accusative | baccalārium | baccalāriōs |
| ablative | baccalāriō | baccalāriīs |
| vocative | baccalārie | baccalāriī |
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- → Old Polish: bakałarz (learned)
- Polish: bakałarz , bakalarz (Middle Polish )
- → Kashubian: bakalôrz (through Middle Polish bakalárz)
- Polish: bakałarz , bakalarz (Middle Polish )
References
[edit ]- ^ Brachet, A. (1873), "BACHELIER", in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co., page 42
- ^ Stowell, William A. (1911), "Note on the Etymology of "bachelier"", in Studies in Honor of A. Marshall Elliott, in Two Volumes, pages 225-236
- ^ baccalaris in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), "baccalarius", in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 75–76