aestuarium

From aestus (“tide”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯s.tuˈaː.ri.um/, [ae̯s.tʊˈaː.ri.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɛs.tuˈa.ri.um/, [ɛs.tuˈaː.ri.um]

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aestuārium n (genitive aestuāriī); second declension

1. tidal marsh or opening
2. creek
3. estuary of a river
4. air shaft of a mine

Second declension.

• Galician: esteiro
• English: estuary
• Portuguese: esteiro, estuário (borrowed)
• Spanish: estero

• aestuarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aestuarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aestuarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aestuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette