orarium

English

Noun

orarium (plural oraria)

1. (religion) A collection of private devotions.

Latin

Etymology

From ōs (“mouth”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose). Compare sūdārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.ri.um/, [oːˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.ri.um/, [oˈräːrium]

Noun

ōrārium n (genitive ōrāriī or ōrārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a napkin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ōrārium	ōrāria
Genitive	ōrāriī ōrārī1	ōrāriōrum
Dative	ōrāriō	ōrāriīs
Accusative	ōrārium	ōrāria
Ablative	ōrāriō	ōrāriīs
Vocative	ōrārium	ōrāria

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

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ὀράριον (orárion)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹 (aurali)

References

• “orarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press