(adj.Subst.) : 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.

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