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Latin
Etymology
From aestus (“tide”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aestuārium n (genitive aestuāriī or aestuārī); second declension
- tidal marsh or opening
- creek
- estuary of a river
- air shaft of a mine
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “aestuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aestuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aestuarium 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)
- aestuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.