emissarium

From Latin ēmissārium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛmɪˈsɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛmɪˈsɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

emissarium (plural emissaria)

1. (architecture) A drain or outlet.

From ēmissus (“discharged, emitted, expelled”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

ēmissārium n (genitive ēmissāriī or ēmissārī); second declension

1. drain, outlet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• ēmissārius

• “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emissarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emissarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “emissarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• emissarium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “emissarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin