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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin vestiārium.
Noun
vestiarium (plural vestiaria) (historical)
- vestry
- wardrobe
Latin
Etymology
vestis + -ārium
Noun
vestiārium n (genitive vestiāriī or vestiārī); second declension
- wardrobe
- (Medieval Latin) vestry
- (Medieval Latin) treasury (of a church or monastery, or the papal court)
- (Medieval Latin) the taxable estates handled by a church treasury
- (Medieval Latin) archive
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- vestiarium 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)
- vestiarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vestiarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1079