promptuarium

Latin

Etymology

From prōmptus (“readiness”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *promptuārius. The u in the spelling is due to the fourth declension noun.

Noun

prōmptuārium n (genitive prōmptuāriī or prōmptuārī); second declension

1. cupboard, storeroom
2. repository

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōmptuārium	prōmptuāria
Genitive	prōmptuāriī prōmptuārī1	prōmptuāriōrum
Dative	prōmptuāriō	prōmptuāriīs
Accusative	prōmptuārium	prōmptuāria
Ablative	prōmptuāriō	prōmptuāriīs
Vocative	prōmptuārium	prōmptuāria

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

Descendants

• English: promptuary (“preparatory”) (archaic)
• Italian: prontuario (“handbook”)

References

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