pessarium

Borrowed from Latin pessārium.

• IPA^(key): /pɛˈsaːriʏm/

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• Hyphenation: pes‧sa‧ri‧um
• Rhymes: -aːriʏm

pessarium n (plural pessaria or pessariums, diminutive pessariumpje n)

1. pessary, diaphragm

   Synonym: vrouwenring

From pessum.

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

pessārium n (genitive pessāriī or pessārī); second declension

1. A pessary

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• → Catalan: pessari (learned)
• → Dutch: pessarium
• Old French: pessaire
  • → Middle English: pessarie
    • English: pessary
  • French: pessaire
• → German: Pessar
• Italian: pessario
• → Spanish: pesario (learned)

• “pessarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pessarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.