libatorium

Latin

Etymology

From lībō (“to make a libation”) +‎ -tōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liː.baːˈtoː.ri.um/, [lʲiːbäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.baˈto.ri.um/, [libäˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

lībātōrium n (genitive lībātōriī or lībātōrī); second declension

1. libation vessel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lībātōrium	lībātōria
Genitive	lībātōriī lībātōrī1	lībātōriōrum
Dative	lībātōriō	lībātōriīs
Accusative	lībātōrium	lībātōria
Ablative	lībātōriō	lībātōriīs
Vocative	lībātōrium	lībātōria

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

References

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