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regionary

regionary adjective: of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.

Adjective

regionary (not comparable)

  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.2013, Paul Erdkamp, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, page 175

Noun

regionary (plural regionaries)

  1. (historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”).
    Synonyms:
    regionarius
  2. (historical) A catalogue of monuments and buildings in ancient Rome, produced from a survey.

Synonyms of regionary

Forms of regionary

pluralregionaries

Origin of regionary

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.

Questions about regionary

What does regionary mean?
Regionary means of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
What part of speech is regionary?
Regionary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near regionary in the dictionary

  1. regionalness
  2. regionals
  3. regionaries
  4. regionarii
  5. regionarius
  6. regionary
  7. regioned
  8. regiones
  9. regionful
  10. regionfuls
  11. regionic

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