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English
Etymology
Latin ēmissārium
Noun
emissarium (plural emissaria)
- (architecture) A drain or outlet.
Latin
Etymology
From ēmissus (“discharged, emitted, expelled”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Noun
ēmissārium n (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension
- drain, outlet
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
See also
References
- “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- emissarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “emissarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- emissarium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “emissarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin