syllabarium

English

Etymology

From Latin syllabārium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

Noun

syllabarium (plural syllabariums or syllabaria)

1. Historical form of syllabary

Latin

Alternative forms

• syllabārius

Etymology

syllaba +‎ -ārium

Noun

syllabārium n (genitive syllabāriī or syllabārī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) alphabet book, a list showing the fundamental units of a writing system

   Synonym: abecedārium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	syllabārium	syllabāria
genitive	syllabāriī syllabārī1	syllabāriōrum
dative	syllabāriō	syllabāriīs
accusative	syllabārium	syllabāria
ablative	syllabāriō	syllabāriīs
vocative	syllabārium	syllabāria

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

Descendants

• →? Arabic: شُلُنْبَر (šulunbar)
• → Catalan: sil·labari
• → English: syllabary
• → Finnish: syllabaari
• → French: syllabaire
• → German: Syllabar
• →? Greek: συλλαβάριο (syllavário)
• → Polish: sylabariusz
• → Portuguese: silabário
• → Romanian: silabar
• → Spanish: silabario

References

• syllabarius 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)