vestiarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin vestiārium.

Noun

vestiarium (plural vestiaria) (historical)

1. vestry
2. wardrobe

Latin

Etymology

vestis +‎ -ārium

Noun

vestiārium n (genitive vestiāriī or vestiārī); second declension

1. wardrobe
2. (Medieval Latin) vestry
3. (Medieval Latin) treasury (of a church or monastery, or the papal court)
4. (Medieval Latin) the taxable estates handled by a church treasury
5. (Medieval Latin) archive

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vestiārium	vestiāria
genitive	vestiāriī vestiārī1	vestiāriōrum
dative	vestiāriō	vestiāriīs
accusative	vestiārium	vestiāria
ablative	vestiāriō	vestiāriīs
vocative	vestiārium	vestiāria

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

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: βεστιάριον (bestiárion)

References

• vestiarium 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)
• vestiarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vestiarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1079