fetialis

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• IPA^(key): /ˌfiːtiˈɑːlɪs/[1]

fetialis (plural fetiales)

1. (Ancient Rome, politics, religion, historical) A fetial.
   • 1843, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, “Heraldick Matters”, in Encyclopaedia of Antiquities and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval, volume 2, London, page 765:

     This was the mode in which Roman treaties were made, the fecialis praying Jupiter to punish the infringer of the treaty as he did the animal, which he instantly dispatched with a flint stone.

   • 1874, Theodore D. Woolsey, Introduction to the Study of International Law, 4th edition, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., page 196:

     [...] but when the theatre of war became more distant, the fetialis, consul, or praetor, contented himself with hurling his lance from a pillar near the temple of Bellona in the direction of the hostile territory, while the declaration of war itself was made by the military commander of the province through an ambassador.

   • 2016, Amanda J. Coles, “Ius Fetiale”, in Sara E[lise] Phang, Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly, Peter Londey, editors, Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia, volumes 3 (H–Z, Roman Section), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 973, column 2:

     Fetiales also investigated allies' claims of abuse by Romans; if substantiated, the fetiales delivered the men accused to the injured parties.

• fecialis
• fetial
• fecial

• filiates

From Proto-Italic *fētis (“statute”) +‎ -ālis, the former inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis, from *dʰeh₁- (“to put”), and cognate with Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “placement”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feː.tiˈaː.lis/, [feːt̪iˈäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fet.t͡siˈa.lis/, [fet̪ː͡s̪iˈäːlis]

fētiālis (neuter fētiāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. relating to a fetial (type of priest in charge of treaties)

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1. fetial (type of priest in charge of treaties)

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• “fetialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fetialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fetialis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette