repositorium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From repōnō (“I store, reserve; I place”) + -tōrium (“pertaining to, serving for”).
Noun edit
repositōrium n (genitive repositōriī or repositōrī); second declension
- something on which something else is placed
- a tray for carrying dishes to the table
- a repository or cabinet
- (Medieval Latin) chest, treasure chest
- (Medieval Latin) storehouse
- (Medieval Latin) tomb, burial vault
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | repositōrium | repositōria |
| Genitive | repositōriī repositōrī1 |
repositōriōrum |
| Dative | repositōriō | repositōriīs |
| Accusative | repositōrium | repositōria |
| Ablative | repositōriō | repositōriīs |
| Vocative | repositōrium | repositōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- → Middle French: repositoire
- → French: repositoire
- → Portuguese: repositório
- → Spanish: repositorio
- → English: repository
References edit
- “repositorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “repositorium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- repositorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- repositorium 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)