confectorium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnficiō (“to slay, destroy”) +‎ -tōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.fekˈtoː.ri.um/, [kõːfɛkˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.fekˈto.ri.um/, [koɱfekˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

cōnfectōrium n (genitive cōnfectōriī or cōnfectōrī); second declension

1. a place where pigs are slaughtered

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfectōrium	cōnfectōria
Genitive	cōnfectōriī cōnfectōrī1	cōnfectōriōrum
Dative	cōnfectōriō	cōnfectōriīs
Accusative	cōnfectōrium	cōnfectōria
Ablative	cōnfectōriō	cōnfectōriīs
Vocative	cōnfectōrium	cōnfectōria

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

References

• “confectorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• confectorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• confectorium 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)