viridarium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From viridis (green in colour) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius.

Pronunciation

Noun

viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension

  1. plantation (of trees)
  2. arboretum, a pleasure-garden
  3. (hunting) preserve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative viridārium viridāria
genitive viridāriī
viridārī1
viridāriōrum
dative viridāriō viridāriīs
accusative viridārium viridāria
ablative viridāriō viridāriīs
vocative viridārium viridāria

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

Descendants

References

  • viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • viridarium 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)
  • viridarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • viridarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers