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English
Noun
valetudinarium (plural valetudinaria)
- (historical) An ancient Roman hospital.
Latin
Adjective
valētūdinārium
- nominative neuter singular of valētūdinārius
Noun
valētūdinārium n (genitive valētūdināriī or valētūdinārī); second declension
- hospital, sickbay
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “valetudinarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- valetudinarium 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)
- “valetudinarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “valetudinarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin