vivarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium.

Noun

vivarium (plural vivariums or vivaria)

  1. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

Translations

References

  • vivarium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.va.ʁjɔm/

Noun

vivarium m (plural vivariums)

  1. vivarium

Further reading


Latin

Etymology

From vīvus (living thing) + -ārium (place for).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /wiːˈwaː.ri.um/, [wiːˈwaː.ri.ũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈva.ri.um/, [viˈvaː.ri.um]
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Noun

vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī); second declension

  1. park, preserve, enclosure

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vīvārium vīvāria
Genitive vīvāriī vīvāriōrum
Dative vīvāriō vīvāriīs
Accusative vīvārium vīvāria
Ablative vīvāriō vīvāriīs
Vocative vīvārium vīvāria

Descendants

  • Norman: vivyi, vivi
  • Portuguese: viveiro
  • Russian: виварий (vivarij)
  • Sicilian: biveri
  • Spanish: vivero
  • Venetian: vivèr, vivàr

References

  • vivarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vivarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vivarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • vivarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vivarium in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
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