viridarium

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension

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

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case 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

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References

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  • 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