Materiarius, Adiect. Of or belonging to timber. vt Materiarius faber. A carpenter.Materiaria fabrica. Plin. Carpenters craft: carpenters worke house.Materiaria incrustatio. Budæus. Seeling or wainescote worke.Materiari ea forma dictum qua Lignari: idèmque significant. Cæs. To make prouision for stuffe or timber.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mātĕrĭārĭus, a, um, adj. [id.], of or belonging to stuff, matter, wood, timber. I. In gen. (ante-class. and post-Aug.): fabrica,
carpentry
, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 198: FABER,
a carpenter
, Inscr. Grut. 642, 6: NEGOCIATOR,
a timber-merchant
, Inscr. Orell. 4248. —Also subst.—B. mātĕrĭārĭus, ii, m. (sc. negotiator), a timber-merchant: si non hos materiarius remoratur, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 45: CLAVORVM,
a maker of wooden nails
, Inscr. Orell. 4164.—II. In partic.: haeretici materiarii, in eccl. Lat.,
those who believed in the eternity of matter
, Tert. adv. Hermog. 25.—B. mātĕrĭārĭa, ae, f. (sc. negotiatio), the trade in timber, Paul. ex Fest. p. 27, 11 Müll.