Operaria, operariæ. f. g. Plaut.A woman labourer.Operárius AdiectiuÛ.Done with labour, pertayning to worke. vt, Vinum operarium, Plin. Wine for workemen & labourers.Homo operatius.Cic.A labourer: an handicraftes man.Lapides operarij. Plin. Stones that may be wrought on.Vsus operarius. Plin. Vse applied to some worke or labour.Pecus operarium. Colu. A beast vsed to any necessary labour.Dies operatius. Cato. A working day.Operôsus pen. prod. Adiectiunm. Cicero: Busie: diligent in labouring: painfull.Senectus operosa, & semper agens aliquid & moliens.Cic.Colonus operosus.Ouid.A diligent labouring husbandeman: laborious.Mulier operoía cultibus. Oui. A woman busted in trimming her selfe.Brachia operosa Cyclopum.Stat.The painefull and labouring armes. Operosus, Passiuè.Painful: wherin one taketh great labor.Ouid. Moles operosa, id est, quæ operata est. Operosa herba.Ouid.An hearbe of great vertue and operation, of great efficacie and strength in working. Res operola. Plinius. A matter requiring much payne. An hard and painefull matter.Facilis & Operosus, contraria. Plin. Aes operosum.Ouid.Brasse wrought in with greate cunning and labour.Agri operosi.Ouid.Fieldes requiring great labour.Antra operosa. Propert. Dennes made with great labour.Artes operosæ.Cic.Arua operosa.Ouid. Bella operosa. Ouid.Carmina operosa. Horat. Verses made with great studie.Concursatio operosa.Cic.Gloria operosa.Ouid.Great glorie got with much labor.Operosus & molestus labor.Cic.Painefull and grieuous labour.Sepulchrum operosum.Cic.A Sepulchre of great and costly workemanship.Stamen operosum.Ouid. Templa operosa. Ouid.In nulla parte operosior vita est. Plin. Operosissima securitas mortis. Plin. Diuitiæ operosiores. Horat. Riches got with great trauayle.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.—II.Subst.A. 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.— B. ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.
