alvearium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From alveus (“hollow, belly, vessel, beehive”) +‎ -ārium (re-substantivation), via *alveārius (relating to hollows, etc.).

Noun

alveārium n (genitive alveāriī or alveārī); second declension

  1. beehive
    Synonym: mellārium
    Holonym: apiārium
  2. kneading trough
    Synonyms: fermentātōrium, magis

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative alveārium alveāria
Genitive alveāriī
alveārī1 		alveāriōrum
Dative alveāriō alveāriīs
Accusative alveārium alveāria
Ablative alveāriō alveāriīs
Vocative alveārium alveāria

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

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Dalmatian: alviar
  • ⇒ Galician: alvariza
  • Italian: alveare
  • → Spanish: alveario

References

  • “alvearium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • alvearium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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