palearium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.leˈaː.ri.um/, [päɫ̪eˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.leˈa.ri.um/, [päleˈäːrium]

Etymology 1

From palea (“chaff”) +‎ -ārium (“of place”).

Noun

paleārium n (genitive paleāriī or paleārī); second declension

1. A place where chaff is stored, chaff-loft.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	paleārium	paleāria
genitive	paleāriī paleārī1	paleāriōrum
dative	paleāriō	paleāriīs
accusative	paleārium	paleāria
ablative	paleāriō	paleāriīs
vocative	paleārium	paleāria

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

Related terms

• palea
• paleālis
• palear
• paleāris
• paleātus

Descendants

• Catalan: paller
• French: pailler
• Friulian: paiâr
• Italian: pagliaio
• Spanish: pajar
• Occitan: palhier
• Sicilian: pagghiaru
• Piedmontese: pajé

Etymology 2

Inflected form of paleāris (“of or pertaining to chaff”).

Adjective

paleārium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of paleāris

References

• “palearium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palearium 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)
• palearium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.