aestuarium

Latin

Etymology

From aestus (“tide”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aestuārium n (genitive aestuāriī or aestuārī); second declension

  1. tidal marsh or opening
  2. creek
  3. estuary of a river
  4. air shaft of a mine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative aestuārium aestuāria
genitive aestuāriī
aestuārī1 		aestuāriōrum
dative aestuāriō aestuāriīs
accusative aestuārium aestuāria
ablative aestuāriō aestuāriīs
vocative aestuārium aestuāria

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

Descendants

  • → Catalan: estuari
  • Old French: estier
  • Galician: esteiro
  • → German: Ästuar
  • Italian: estuario
  • Piedmontese: estuari
  • Portuguese: esteiro; → estuário
  • Spanish: estero; → estuario
  • → English: estuary

References

  • “aestuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aestuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "aestuarium", 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)
  • aestuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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