viridarium

Latin

Alternative forms

viridiārium^[1]

Etymology

From viridis (“green in colour”) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪ.rɪˈdaː.ri.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.riˈd̪aː.ri.um]

Noun

viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension

plantation (of trees)
arboretum, a pleasure-garden
(hunting) preserve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	viridārium	viridāria
genitive	viridāriī viridārī¹	viridāriōrum
dative	viridāriō	viridāriīs
accusative	viridārium	viridāria
ablative	viridāriō	viridāriīs
vocative	viridārium	viridāria

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

Descendants

Padanian:
- Piedmontese: vërzé
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: vèrgiér
- Old French: vergier
  - Middle French: vergier
    - French: verger
  - → Italian: verziere (or perhaps from Piedmontese)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: verger
- Old Occitan: vergier
  - Auvergnat: verdièir, verdèir
  - Gascon: vergèr
  - Languedocien: vergièr, verdièr
  - Limousin: vergier
  - Provençal: vergier
  - Vivaro-Alpine: vergier
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: vergeu
    - Galician: verxel
    - Portuguese: vergel
  - → Spanish: vergel
Borrowings:
- → Portuguese: viridário

References

“viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"viridarium", 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)
viridarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“viridarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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