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Latin
Etymology
From viridis (“green in colour”) + -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius.
Pronunciation
Noun
viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension
- plantation (of trees)
- arboretum, a pleasure-garden
- (hunting) preserve
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
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