herbarium

From Latin herbārium.

herbarium (plural herbariums or herbaria)

1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]

2. A building or institution where such a collection is kept.

• fungarium
• hortorium
• xylarium

• herbarial

• arboretum
• botanical garden

• herb.

From herbārius (“botanist”), from herba (“grass, vegetation”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /herˈbaː.ri.um/, [hɛrˈbaː.ri.ũ]

herbārium n (genitive herbāriī or herbārī); second declension

1. a herbarium; a collection of dried plants
2. a herbarium (a written work on botany)

   Herbarium Apuleii Platonici

   the Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus

Second declension.

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

• herbārium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• herbarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• herbārĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 741/3