gallinarium

Latin

Etymology

From gallīna (hen) +‎ -ārium (place for).

Noun

gallīnārium n (genitive gallīnāriī or gallīnārī); second declension

  1. henhouse, hen-coop

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative gallīnārium gallīnāria
genitive gallīnāriī
gallīnārī1
gallīnāriōrum
dative gallīnāriō gallīnāriīs
accusative gallīnārium gallīnāria
ablative gallīnāriō gallīnāriīs
vocative gallīnārium gallīnāria

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

Descendants

  • Catalan: galliner
  • Friulian: gjalinâr
  • Galician: galiñeiro
  • Italian: gallinaio
  • Occitan: galinièr
  • Portuguese: galinheiro
  • Sicilian: gaḍḍinaru, jaḍḍinaru
  • Spanish: gallinero

References

  • "gallinarium", 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)
  • gallinarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gallinarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin