librarium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From liber (“book”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /liˈbraː.ri.um/, [lʲɪˈbräːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbra.ri.um/, [liˈbräːrium]
Noun
[edit]librārium n (genitive librāriī or librārī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | librārium | librāria |
| genitive | librāriī librārī1 |
librāriōrum |
| dative | librāriō | librāriīs |
| accusative | librārium | librāria |
| ablative | librāriō | librāriīs |
| vocative | librārium | librāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
[edit]- (bookcase): pluteus
- (library): bibliothēca
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: library
References
[edit]- “librarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- librarium 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)
- librarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.