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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glirarium.
Noun
glirarium (plural gliraria)
- A terracotta pot used in Roman times to breed dormice for consumption as food.
Latin
Etymology
From glis (“dormouse”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Noun
glīrārium n (genitive glīrāriī or glīrārī); second declension
- a glirarium, a terracotta pot used for breeding dormice for eating.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “glirarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- glirarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.