orarium

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɹɛɹi.əm/, /əˈɹɛɹi.əm/
Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

Noun

orarium (plural oraria)

(religion) A collection of private devotions.

Latin

Etymology

From ōs (“mouth”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose). Compare sūdārium.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈraː.ri.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈraː.ri.um]

Noun

ōrārium n (genitive ōrāriī or ōrārī); second declension

(Late Latin) a napkin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ōrārium	ōrāria
genitive	ōrāriī ōrārī¹	ōrāriōrum
dative	ōrāriō	ōrāriīs
accusative	ōrārium	ōrāria
ablative	ōrāriō	ōrāriīs
vocative	ōrārium	ōrāria

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

Descendants

Byzantine Greek: ὀράριον (orárion)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹 (aurali)

References

“orarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press