{
    "meta": {
        "serviceProvider": {
            "name": "Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties, TELOTA - IT\/DH",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/en\/bbaw-digital\/telota"
        },
        "dataProvider": {
            "name": "Classical Language Dictionary",
            "link": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de"
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "self": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de\/api\/dictionary\/lemma\/ostiarius?language=lat&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-04-14 15:16:16",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "ostiarius",
        "language": "LAT",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "ostiarius",
            "meanings": 2,
            "language": "lat",
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "dictionary": "Lewis Short",
                    "reference": "Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary",
                    "source": "https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059",
                    "description": "(adjective) : ostĭārĭus, a, um, ostium\n* Of or belonging to the door: ancilla,portress,Vulg. Johan. 18, 17; usu. subst.\n* Ostĭā-rĭus, ii, m., a door-keeper, porter (syn.: janitor, portitor),Varr. R. R. 1, 13; Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 64; Vulg. 1 Par. 9, 22.—By the rich they were, in early times, occasionally chained up, Suet. Rhet. 3.—In the Christian church, a sexton, Cod. Th. 1, 3, 6; 16, 2, 27.\n* Ostĭāria, ae, f., a female doorkeeper, portress, Ambros. in Luc. 10, § 75; Vulg. 2 Reg. 4, 5; id. Johan. 18, 16.\n* Ostĭārĭum, ii, n., a tax upon doors, a door-tax: columnaria, ostiaria, frumentum, vecturae imperabantur,Caes. B. C. 3, 32 (called exactio ostiorum, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5)."
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "Lewis Short",
                    "reference": "Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary",
                    "source": "https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059",
                    "description": "ostĭārĭus, ii, v. 2. ostiarius, I."
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "TLL",
                    "reference": "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae",
                    "source": "https:\/\/thesaurus.badw.de",
                    "description": "s. <a href='https:\/\/tll-open.badw.de\/de\/thesaurus\/lemmata#63864'>TLL<\/a>"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}