clavarium

Latin

Etymology

From clāvus (“nail”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *clāvārius (relating to nails).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /klaːˈu̯aː.ri.um/, [kɫ̪äːˈu̯äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klaˈva.ri.um/, [kläˈväːrium]

Noun

clāvārium n (genitive clāvāriī or clāvārī); second declension

1. (military) money to pay for a shoe-nail

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	clāvārium	clāvāria
Genitive	clāvāriī clāvārī1	clāvāriōrum
Dative	clāvāriō	clāvāriīs
Accusative	clāvārium	clāvāria
Ablative	clāvāriō	clāvāriīs
Vocative	clāvārium	clāvāria

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

Related terms

• clāvō
• clāvus

References

• “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clavarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clavarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clavarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin