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Latin
Etymology
alvus (“belly; beehive”) + -ārium.
Pronunciation
Noun
alvārium n (genitive alvāriī or alvārī); second declension
- A beehive.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
Adjective
alvārium
- inflection of alvārius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “alvarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers