ponderarium
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pon.deˈraː.ri.um/, [pɔn̪d̪ɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pon.deˈra.ri.um/, [pon̪d̪eˈräːrium]
Noun
editponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension
- 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
editSecond-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
edit- “ponderarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press