emissarium

English

Etymology

Latin ēmissārium

Noun

emissarium (plural emissaria)

1. (architecture) A drain or outlet.

Latin

Etymology

From ēmissus (“discharged, emitted, expelled”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

ēmissārium n (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension

1. drain, outlet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēmissārium	ēmissāria
Genitive	ēmissāriī ēmissārī1	ēmissāriōrum
Dative	ēmissāriō	ēmissāriīs
Accusative	ēmissārium	ēmissāria
Ablative	ēmissāriō	ēmissāriīs
Vocative	ēmissārium	ēmissāria

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

See also

• ēmissārius

References

• “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emissarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “emissarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emissarium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “emissarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin