gallinarium

Latin

Etymology

From gallīna (“hen”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

gallīnārium n (genitive gallīnāriī or gallīnārī); second declension

1. henhouse, hen-coop

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	gallīnārium	gallīnāria
genitive	gallīnāriī gallīnārī1	gallīnāriōrum
dative	gallīnāriō	gallīnāriīs
accusative	gallīnārium	gallīnāria
ablative	gallīnāriō	gallīnāriīs
vocative	gallīnārium	gallīnāria

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

Related terms

• gallīnārius

Descendants

• Catalan: galliner
• Friulian: gjalinâr
• Galician: galiñeiro
• Italian: gallinaio
• Occitan: galinièr
• Portuguese: galinheiro
• Sicilian: gaḍḍinaru, jaḍḍinaru
• Spanish: gallinero

References

• gallinarium 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)
• “gallinarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gallinarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin