columnarium

Latin

Etymology

columna (“pillar”) +‎ -ārium

Pronunciation

Noun

columnārium n (genitive columnāriī or columnārī); second declension

  1. a tax on pillars in buildings

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative columnārium columnāria
genitive columnāriī
columnārī1 		columnāriōrum
dative columnāriō columnāriīs
accusative columnārium columnāria
ablative columnāriō columnāriīs
vocative columnārium columnāria

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

References

  • “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “columnarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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