ponderarium

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Latin

Etymology

ponderō +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pon.deˈraː.ri.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pon.deˈra.ri.um/,

Noun

ponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension

the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ponderārium	ponderāria
genitive	ponderāriī ponderārī¹	ponderāriōrum
dative	ponderāriō	ponderāriīs
accusative	ponderārium	ponderāria
ablative	ponderāriō	ponderāriīs
vocative	ponderārium	ponderāria

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

References

“ponderarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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