underworkman

ŏpĕrārĭus, a, um, adj. [opera], of or belonging to labor (class.):

homo,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8:

pecus,

working-cattle, Col. 6, 2, 15:

vinum,

for working-men, Plin. 14, 10, 12, § 86.—

Subst.

ŏpĕrārĭus, ii, m., a laborer, workman, operative:

habere oportet operarios quinque,

Cato, R. R. 10, 1: operarius rusticus, the peasant as a day-laborer, Edict. Diocl. 7, 1; cf.:

operarius agrarius,

Vulg. Ecclus. 37, 13:

quos singulos sicut operarios barbarosque contemnas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā,

fluent talkers, bad orators, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83:

operarium nobis quendam oratorem facis,

underworkman, id. ib. 1, 62, 263:

si quid actum erit, quod isti operarii minus commode persequi possent,

i. e. scribes, secretaries, id. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.

ŏpĕrārĭus, a, um, adj. [opera], of or belonging to labor (class.):

homo,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8:

pecus,

working-cattle, Col. 6, 2, 15:

vinum,

for working-men, Plin. 14, 10, 12, § 86.—

Subst.

ŏpĕrārĭus, ii, m., a laborer, workman, operative:

habere oportet operarios quinque,

Cato, R. R. 10, 1: operarius rusticus, the peasant as a day-laborer, Edict. Diocl. 7, 1; cf.:

operarius agrarius,

Vulg. Ecclus. 37, 13:

quos singulos sicut operarios barbarosque contemnas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:

quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā,

fluent talkers, bad orators, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83:

operarium nobis quendam oratorem facis,

underworkman, id. ib. 1, 62, 263:

si quid actum erit, quod isti operarii minus commode persequi possent,

i. e. scribes, secretaries, id. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.