Latin edit

Etymology edit

From gallīna (hen) +‎ -ārium (place for).

Noun edit

gallīnārium n (genitive gallīnāriī or gallīnārī); second declension

  1. henhouse, hen-coop

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gallīnārium gallīnāria
Genitive gallīnāriī
gallīnārī1
gallīnāriōrum
Dative gallīnāriō gallīnāriīs
Accusative gallīnārium gallīnāria
Ablative gallīnāriō gallīnāriīs
Vocative gallīnārium gallīnāria

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

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References edit

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