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Latin
Etymology
From spīca (“ear of grain”) + -ārium. Attested in the Lex Salica and Lex Alamannorum. Also found in 12th– and 13th-century texts.[1][2]
Noun
spīcārium n (genitive spīcāriī or spīcārī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- granary
- Pactus Legis Salicae 16.3
- si quis spicarium aut machalum cum anona incenderit
- if anyone sets fire to a corn-store or barn with grain[3]
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “spicarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 984
- ^ spicarium2 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)
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 314