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Latin
Etymology
vās (“vessel, instrument, equipment”) + -ārium
Pronunciation
Noun
vāsārium n (genitive vāsāriī or vāsārī); second declension
- An allowance paid to provincial governors for domestic establishment costs such as equipment, furniture, or other outfit (including travel and accommodation costs).
- A place where documents are kept, a record office, an archive.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “vasarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vasarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.