viridarium
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom viridis (“green in colour”) + -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯i.riˈdaː.ri.um/, [u̯ɪrɪˈd̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vi.riˈda.ri.um/, [viriˈd̪äːrium]
Noun
editviridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension
- plantation (of trees)
- arboretum, a pleasure-garden
- (hunting) preserve
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | viridārium | viridāria |
Genitive | viridāriī viridārī1 |
viridāriōrum |
Dative | viridāriō | viridāriīs |
Accusative | viridārium | viridāria |
Ablative | viridāriō | viridāriīs |
Vocative | viridārium | viridāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- viridarium 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)
- viridarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “viridarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers