vivarium
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English
Etymology
Noun
vivarium (plural vivariums or vivaria)
- A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.
Translations
Artificial environment for animals
References
- “vivarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.
Pronunciation
Noun
vivarium m (plural vivariums)
Further reading
- “vivarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From vīvus (“living thing”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈu̯aː.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈva.ri.um/,
Noun
vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī or vīvārī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
| Genitive | vīvāriī vīvārī1 |
vīvāriōrum |
| Dative | vīvāriō | vīvāriīs |
| Accusative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
| Ablative | vīvāriō | vīvāriīs |
| Vocative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: viveru
- Catalan: viver
- → Dutch: vivarium (learned)
- Friulian: vivâr
- Galician: viveiro
- Italian: vivaio
- Old French: vivier
- Portuguese: viveiro
- Sicilian: biveri
- Spanish: vivero
- Venetian: vivèr, vivàr
- → English: vivarium (learned)
- → French: vivarium (learned)
- → Romanian: vivariu
- → Proto-West Germanic: *wīwārī (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: виварий (vivarij)
References
- “vivarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vivarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vivarium 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)
- “vivarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vivarium”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press