carnarium

From carō (“meat”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

carnārium n (genitive carnāriī or carnārī); second declension

1. smoke chamber where meat is smoked
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 135.4:

     Mox incincta quadrato pallio cucumam ingentem foco apposuit, simulque pannum de carnario detulit furca, in quo faba erat ad usum reposita et sincipitis vetustissima particula mille plagis dolata.

     After girthing herself with a rectangular apron she put a vast cauldron to the fire, and at the same time she put down a rag from the smoke chamber, in which beans were stored for use as well as a bit of a head-half cut with thousand strikes.

2. meat rack, larder
3. carnage, butchery
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 45.6:

     Non est miscix. ferrum optimum daturus est, sine fuga, carnarium in medio, ut amphitheater videat.

     He is no flibbertigibbet, he will give the best fight, without flight, a carnage in the middle, so that the whole amphitheater will see it.

Second declension.

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

• Old French: carnier
  • French: charnier
• Italian: carnaio

See the etymology of the main entry.

carnārium

1. nominative neuter singular of carnārius
2. accusative masculine singular of carnārius
3. accusative neuter singular of carnārius
4. vocative neuter singular of carnārius

• carnarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• carnarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carnarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin