velarium

English

Etymology

From Latin velarium. Doublet of veghar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

velarium (plural velaria or velariums)

1. (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
2. (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
3. A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
   • 2007 October 15, David Clay Large, Berlin, Basic Books, →ISBN:

     In accordance with the epochal significance of the occasion, Berlin was decked out as never before in its history. […] A velarium suspended over Unter den Linden depicted the great military victories that had finally brought Germany its unity.

   • 2009 September 28, Michael Barron, Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 134:

     Royal Albert Hall [was dedicated] by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). As The Times reported on the next day: 'The address [...] was somewhat marred by an echo [...]'. To Col. Scott, the designer of the huge roof structure, this acoustic problem was a mere irritant which could be solved by a velarium of cloth (weighing 1 1/4 tons) stretched underneath the roof. But in spite of experiments with the height of the velarium, the echo persisted […]

Related terms

• velarial

Latin

Etymology

From vēlum (“sail, curtain, awning”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈlaː.ri.um/, [u̯eːˈɫ̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈla.ri.um/, [veˈläːrium]

Noun

vēlārium n (genitive vēlāriī or vēlārī); second declension

1. awning
2. covering (over a theatre)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vēlārium	vēlāria
genitive	vēlāriī vēlārī1	vēlāriōrum
dative	vēlāriō	vēlāriīs
accusative	vēlārium	vēlāria
ablative	vēlāriō	vēlāriīs
vocative	vēlārium	vēlāria

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

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: βηλάριον (bēlárion), βηλάρι (bēlári)
  • Greek: βηλάρι (vilári)
  • Middle Armenian: վեղար (veġar)
    • Armenian: վեղար (veġar)
• English: velarium
• Italian: velario
• Piedmontese: velari

References

• “velarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “velarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• velarium 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)
• velarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “velarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin velarium or French vélarium.

Noun

velarium n (uncountable)

1. velarium

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	velarium	velariumul
genitive-dative	velarium	velariumului
vocative	velariumule