herbarium
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English
Etymology
From Latin herbārium. Doublet of arbor.
Noun
herbarium (plural herbariums or herbaria)
- A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
- 1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- A building or institution where such a collection is kept.
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Translations
collection of dried plants
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building or institution where a collection of plants is held
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See also
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin herbārium.
Pronunciation
Noun
herbarium n (plural herbaria)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: herbarium
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch herbarium, from Latin herbārium.
Pronunciation
Noun
herbarium (plural herbarium-herbarium)
Further reading
- “herbarium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the neuter of herbārius, -a, -um (“botanical”) (attested only as a masculine noun, "botanist", in Classical Latin), equivalent to herba (“grass, vegetation”) + -ārium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /herˈbaː.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /erˈba.ri.um/,
Noun
herbārium n (genitive herbāriī or herbārī); second declension
- a herbarium; a collection of dried plants
- a herbarium (a written work on botany)
- Herbarium Apuleii Platonici
- the Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | herbārium | herbāria |
| genitive | herbāriī herbārī1 |
herbāriōrum |
| dative | herbāriō | herbāriīs |
| accusative | herbārium | herbāria |
| ablative | herbāriō | herbāriīs |
| vocative | herbārium | herbāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “herbārium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- herbarium 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)
- herbārĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 741/3.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarier, definite plural herbaria or herbariene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarium, definite plural herbaria)