vivarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium.

Noun

vivarium (plural vivariums or vivaria)

1. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

Translations

Artificial environment for animals

• Bulgarian: вива́риум m (vivárium)
• Dutch: vivarium (nl) n
• French: vivarium (fr) m
• German: Vivarium n
• Portuguese: viveiro (pt) m
• Russian: вива́рий (ru) m (vivárij)
• Welsh: milodfa f

References

• “vivarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.va.ʁjɔm/

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Noun

vivarium m (plural vivariums)

1. vivarium

Further reading

• “vivarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From vīvus (“living thing”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈu̯aː.ri.um/, [u̯iːˈu̯äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈva.ri.um/, [viˈväːrium]

Noun

vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī or vīvārī); second declension

1. park, preserve, enclosure

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīvārium	vīvāria
Genitive	vīvāriī vīvārī1	vīvāriōrum
Dative	vīvāriō	vīvāriīs
Accusative	vīvārium	vīvāria
Ablative	vīvāriō	vīvāriīs
Vocative	vīvārium	vīvāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• vīvārius
• vīvō
• vīvus

Descendants

• Asturian: viveru
• Catalan: viver
• → Dutch: vivarium (learned)
• Friulian: vivâr
• Galician: viveiro
• Italian: vivaio
• Old French: vivier
  • French: vivier
  • Norman: vivyi, vivi
  • → Middle Dutch: viver
    • Dutch: vijver (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: viveiro
• Sicilian: biveri
• Spanish: vivero
• Venetian: vivèr, vivàr
• → English: vivarium (learned)
• → French: vivarium (learned)
  • → Romanian: vivariu
• → Proto-West Germanic: *wīwārī (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: виварий (vivarij)

References

• “vivarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vivarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vivarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vivarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vivarium”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press