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Latin
Etymology
From clāvus (“nail”) + -ārium (of purpose), via *clāvārius (relating to nails).
Pronunciation
Noun
clāvārium n (genitive clāvāriī or clāvārī); second declension
- (military) money to pay for a shoe-nail
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clavarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clavarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “clavarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin