repositorium
Latin
Etymology
From repōnō (“I store, reserve; I place”) + -tōrium (“pertaining to, serving for”).
Noun
repositōrium n (genitive repositōriī or repositōrī); second declension
- something on which something else is placed
- a tray for carrying dishes to the table
- a repository or cabinet
- (Medieval Latin) chest, treasure chest
- (Medieval Latin) storehouse
- (Medieval Latin) tomb, burial vault
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | repositōrium | repositōria |
| genitive | repositōriī repositōrī1 |
repositōriōrum |
| dative | repositōriō | repositōriīs |
| accusative | repositōrium | repositōria |
| ablative | repositōriō | repositōriīs |
| vocative | repositōrium | repositōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Middle French: repositoire
- → French: repositoire
- → Portuguese: repositório
- → Spanish: repositorio
- → English: repository
References
- “repositorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “repositorium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- repositorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- "repositorium", 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)