carcerarium

Latin edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kar.keˈraː.ri.um/, [kärkɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kar.t͡ʃeˈra.ri.um/, [kärt͡ʃeˈräːrium]

Neuter substantive from carcerārius (adjective), elliptically for carcerārium tribūtum (“carceral contribution”).

carcerārium n (genitive carcerāriī or carcerārī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) jailer’s fees, prison fees (money paid to a jailkeeper by or on behalf of a prisoner for the food and drink supplied to that prisoner during incarceration)
Synonyms: carcerātica f, geolāgium n
- 1315 April 1st, Ludovicus X Rex, “Ordonance touchant le payement des dettes actives des Juifs. Elle contient de differentes diſpoſitions touchant les fiefs, les alleux, &c.”, in Ordonnances des Roys de France de la troisiéme Race, Recueillies par ordre Chronologique., premier volume [first volume] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie Royale, published 1723, page 556, article 16:
  Cum ſuper eo quod frequenter aliquem capi & incarcerati contingit, & causâ cognitâ innocentem, ſeu inculpabilem reperiri, & nihilominus detineri, pro geolagio, ſeu carceragio, & ſcripturâ, peterent ab hujuſmodi extorſionibus deſiſtere & ceſſare.
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¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carcerārium

carcerārium m