clavarium

From clāvus (“nail”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via clāvārius (“nailsmith”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɫaːˈwaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [klaˈvaː.ri.um]

clāvārium n (genitive clāvāriī or clāvārī); second declension

1. (military) money to pay for a shoe-nail

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clavarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clavarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clavarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clavarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin