plantarium

Latin

Etymology

From planta (“plant; shoot, twig”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

plantārium n (genitive plantāriī or plantārī); second declension

1. nursery (for young plants)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plantārium	plantāria
Genitive	plantāriī plantārī1	plantāriōrum
Dative	plantāriō	plantāriīs
Accusative	plantārium	plantāria
Ablative	plantāriō	plantāriīs
Vocative	plantārium	plantāria

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

Descendants

• Catalan: planter
  • → Spanish: plantel
    • → Portuguese: plantel
• Spanish: plantario

References

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