ponderarium

Latin

Etymology

ponderō +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pon.deˈraː.ri.um/, [pɔn̪d̪ɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pon.deˈra.ri.um/, [pon̪d̪eˈräːrium]

Noun

ponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension

1. the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ponderārium	ponderāria
Genitive	ponderāriī ponderārī1	ponderāriōrum
Dative	ponderāriō	ponderāriīs
Accusative	ponderārium	ponderāria
Ablative	ponderāriō	ponderāriīs
Vocative	ponderārium	ponderāria

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

References

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