vestiarium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin vestiārium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌvɛs.tiˈɛəɹi.əm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌvɛs.tiˈɛɹi.əm/
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Noun
vestiarium (plural vestiaria) (historical)
Latin
Etymology
Noun
vestiārium n (genitive vestiāriī or vestiārī); second declension
- wardrobe
- (Medieval Latin) vestry
- (Medieval Latin) treasury (of a church or monastery, or the papal court)
- (Medieval Latin) the taxable estates handled by a church treasury
- (Medieval Latin) archive
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vestiārium | vestiāria |
| genitive | vestiāriī vestiārī1 |
vestiāriōrum |
| dative | vestiāriō | vestiāriīs |
| accusative | vestiārium | vestiāria |
| ablative | vestiāriō | vestiāriīs |
| vocative | vestiārium | vestiāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Byzantine Greek: βεστιάριον (bestiárion)
References
- "vestiarium", 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)
- vestiarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vestiarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1079