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Latin
Noun
conditōrium n (genitive conditōriī or conditōrī); second declension
- repository
- tomb, coffin, sarcophagus
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
De vita Caesarum 2 18:
- Per idem tempus conditōrium et corpus Magnī Alexandrī, cum prōlātum ē penetrālī subiēcisset oculīs, corōnā aureā impositā ac flōribus aspersīs venerātus est cōnsultusque, num et Ptolemaeum īnspicere vellet, rēgem sē voluisse ait vidēre, nōn mortuōs.
- Around the same time he paid honours to the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great, when he examined it taken out of the mausoleum, by putting on it a golden crown and spreading flowers, and was asked whether he also wished to see the Ptolemaean mausoleum, he said that he wanted to see a king, not corpses.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “conditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conditorium 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)
- conditorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “conditorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “conditorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin