carnarium

Latin

FWOTD – 8 May 2019

Etymology 1

From carō (“meat”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

carnārium n (genitive carnāriī or carnārī); second declension

1. smoke chamber where meat is smoked
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 135.4:

     Mox incincta quadrato pallio cucumam ingentem foco apposuit, simulque pannum de carnario detulit furca, in quo faba erat ad usum reposita et sincipitis vetustissima particula mille plagis dolata.

     After girthing herself with a rectangular apron she put a vast cauldron to the fire, and at the same time she put down a rag from the smoke chamber, in which beans were stored for use as well as a bit of a head-half cut with thousand strikes.

2. meat rack, larder
3. carnage, butchery
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 45.6:

     Non est miscix. ferrum optimum daturus est, sine fuga, carnarium in medio, ut amphitheater videat.

     He is no flibbertigibbet, he will give the best fight, without flight, a carnage in the middle, so that the whole amphitheater will see it.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carnārium	carnāria
Genitive	carnāriī carnārī1	carnāriōrum
Dative	carnāriō	carnāriīs
Accusative	carnārium	carnāria
Ablative	carnāriō	carnāriīs
Vocative	carnārium	carnāria

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

Descendants

• German: Karner, Kerner
• Italian: carnaio
• Old French: carnier
  • French: charnier

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

carnārium

1. inflection of carnārius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• carnarium 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)
• “carnarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carnarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin