dormitorium

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dormītōrium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌdɔrmiˈtoːriʏm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: dor‧mi‧to‧ri‧um
  • Rhymes: -oːriʏm

Noun

dormitorium n (plural dormitoria or dormitoriums, diminutive dormitoriumpje n)

  1. a dormitory, especially in a monastery
    Synonym: slaapzaal
  2. (historical) an early Christian cemetery or necropolis

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of dormītōrius (“of or for sleeping”), from the verb dormire (“to sleep”).

Noun

dormītōrium n (genitive dormītōriī or dormītōrī); second declension

  1. a sleeping-room, dormitory

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dormītōrium dormītōria
genitive dormītōriī
dormītōrī1 		dormītōriōrum
dative dormītōriō dormītōriīs
accusative dormītōrium dormītōria
ablative dormītōriō dormītōriīs
vocative dormītōrium dormītōria

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

Descendants

References

  • “dormitorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dormitorium 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)
  • “dormitorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dormitorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dormitorium n (definite singular dormatoriet, indefinite plural dormatorier, definite plural dormatoria or dormatoriene)

  1. dormitory

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dormitorium n (definite singular dormatoriet, indefinite plural dormitorium, definite plural dormatoria)

  1. dormitory

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dormītōrium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔr.miˈtɔ.rjum/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrjum
  • Syllabification: dor‧mi‧to‧rium

Noun

dormitorium n

  1. dormitory (building or part thereof)
    Synonym: dormitarz

Declension

Declension of dormitorium
singular plural
nominative dormitorium dormitoria
genitive dormitorium dormitoriów
dative dormitorium dormitoriom
accusative dormitorium dormitoria
instrumental dormitorium dormitoriami
locative dormitorium dormitoriach
vocative dormitorium dormitoria

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin dormītōrium.

Noun

dormitorium n

  1. dormitory

Declension

Declension of dormitorium
nominative genitive
singular indefinite dormitorium dormitoriums
definite dormitoriet dormitoriets
plural indefinite dormitorier dormitoriers
definite dormitorierna dormitoriernas

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