-arium

English

Etymology

From Latin -ārium.

Suffix

-arium (plural -ariums or -aria)

1. A place associated with a specified thing.
2. A device associated with a specified function.

Usage notes

• Care should be taken to distinguish occurrences of -arium from occurrences of -ium. For instance: elements such as barium and samarium have the -ium suffix.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -arium

acarinarium

antiquarium

aquarium

balsamarium

bullarium

dolphinarium

formicarium

gerbilarium

imaginarium

insectarium

magnetarium

mesoarium

mosquitarium

oceanarium

ophidiarium

orchidarium

orphanarium

paludarium

penguinarium

planetarium

puparium

riparium

rivarium

septarium

serpentarium

Spacearium

termitarium

terrarium

verbarium

vitellarium

vivarium

xylarium

zoarium

Translations

a place associated with a specified thing

• Hungarian: -árium
• Interlingua: -ario
• Polish: -arium n
• Portuguese: -ário (pt) m

a device associated with a specified function

• Hungarian: -árium
• Portuguese: -ário (pt) m

Anagrams

• Mauri, Urmia, mauri, Umari, Miura, uriam

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin -ārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ri.ʏm/

• Audio:

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Suffix

-arium

1. -arium

Derived terms

Dutch terms suffixed with -arium

formicarium

klabakkarium

paludarium

planetarium

prullarium

terrarium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈäː.ri.um]

Etymology 1

Neuter substantive of -ārius. Cf. -ium.

Suffix

-ārium n (genitive -āriī or -ārī); second declension

2. Used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end. See usage notes.

   ‎arma (“weapons, tools”) + ‎-ārium → ‎armārium (“closet, chest”)

   ‎sōl (“sun”) + ‎-ārium → ‎sōlārium (“sundial, house-top”)

   ‎columba (“dove”) + ‎-ārium → ‎columbārium (“dovecot”)

   ‎glōssa (“definition”) + ‎-ārium → ‎glōssārium (“glossary, collection of glosses”)

Usage notes

• -ārium of purpose: All usages of the -ārium suffix are properly neuter substantivisations for adjectives derived in -ārius from existing substantives. In most cases, the relationship between the two nouns is ‘place where;’ this usage has been productive in all periods of Classical and post-Classical Latin. In addition, the same suffix has continued to be used to designate novel items according to their purposes. This class constitute approximately a quarter of commonly used -ārium suffixations. Adjectives in -ārius are generally formed from numerals or nouns.

  sūdor (“sweat”) → sūdārius (“sweaty”) → sūdārium (“handkerchief”)

  mīlle (“thousand”) → milliārius (“relating to miles or thousands”) → milliārium (“milepost”)

  album (“the colour white”) → albārius (“relating to whitening walls”) → albārium (“stucco”)

• -ārium by analogy: three commonly used nouns have been formed by analogy from adjectives or verbs:

  viridārium (“hunting preserve”, from viridis)

  inventārium (“inventory”, from inveniō)

  caldārium (“hottest room in a Roman bath”, from caldus)

• -ārium for re-substantivation: four commonly used nouns are re-substantivated versions of cognate nouns formed directly from the adjectives in -ārium: pampinārium (“vine tendril”), alveārium (“beehive”), cellārium (“pantry, cellar”), and fustuārium (“death by cudgeling”). With the exception of cellārium, which was first attested in the fourth century, the remaining words were likely coined prior to the first millennium.

For roots containing /l/, there is some overlap in usage with the etymologically distinct third-declension suffix -āre and its apocopated variant -ar (derived from the neuter forms of the adjective suffix -āris, a dissimilated form of -ālis); thus, cochleārium alongside cochlear, lacūnārium alongside lacūnar, pulvīnārium alongside pulvīnar. Note that the nominative/accusative/vocative plural forms like lacūnāria and pulvīnāria are identical for both types of declension.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	-ārium	-āria
genitive	-āriī -ārī1	-āriōrum
dative	-āriō	-āriīs
accusative	-ārium	-āria
ablative	-āriō	-āriīs
vocative	-ārium	-āria

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

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -arium

acetaria

aciarium

aerarium

aestuarium

albarium

alvarium

alvearium

apiarium

armamentarium

armarium

atramentarium

aviarium

ballistarium

breviarium

calcearium

caldarium

calendarium

capitularium

carnarium

cellarium

chartarium

cinerarium

clavarium

columbarium

columnarium

congiarium

corollarium

cucumerarium

diarium

dictionarium

donarium

emissarium

fabatarium

fimarium

frigidarium

fumarium

fustuarium

gallinarium

glaciarium

glirarium

granarium

herbarium

horarium

inventarium

itinerarium

lararium

lectionarium

librarium

locarium

mensarium

milliarium

mortuarium

muscarium

nubilarium

orarium

ovarium

palearium

pampinarium

panarium

paparium

pirarium

planetarium

plantarium

polyzoarium

pomarium

ponderarium

promptuarium

pulmentarium

rationarium

rosarium

sacrarium

sanctuarium

scaccarium

seminarium

solarium

spicarium

stillarium

sudarium

summarium

syllabarium

tabularium

tepidarium

urnarium

vaporarium

velarium

vestiarium

vinarium

viridarium

vivarium

vocabularium

Related terms

• -ārius

Descendants

• English: -arium

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-ārium

1. genitive feminine/masculine/neuter plural of -āris
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of -ārius

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriumder.

Polish -arium

Derived from Latin -ārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rjum/
• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Suffix

-arium n

1. -arium

   ‎foka + ‎-arium → ‎fokarium

Declension

Declension of -arium

	singular	plural
nominative	-arium	-aria
genitive	-arium	-ariów
dative	-arium	-ariom
accusative	-arium	-aria
instrumental	-arium	-ariami
locative	-arium	-ariach
vocative	-arium	-aria

Derived terms

Polish terms suffixed with -arium

bestiarium

fokarium

See also

• -arnia

Further reading

• -arium in Polish dictionaries at PWN