librarium

Latin

Etymology

From liber (“book”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liˈbraː.ri.um/, [lʲɪˈbräːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈbra.ri.um/, [liˈbräːrium]

Noun

librārium n (genitive librāriī or librārī); second declension

1. a bookcase
2. a library

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	librārium	librāria
Genitive	librāriī librārī1	librāriōrum
Dative	librāriō	librāriīs
Accusative	librārium	librāria
Ablative	librāriō	librāriīs
Vocative	librārium	librāria

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

Synonyms

• (bookcase): pluteus
• (library): bibliothēca

Related terms

• liber
• librārius

Descendants

• English: library

References

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