fimarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• fumārium

Etymology

fimum (“dung”) +‎ -ārium (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiˈmaː.ri.um/, [fɪˈmäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈma.ri.um/, [fiˈmäːrium]

Noun

fimārium n (genitive fimāriī or fimārī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Synonym of fimētum (“dunghill”) [13th C.]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fimārium	fimāria
Genitive	fimāriī fimārī1	fimāriōrum
Dative	fimāriō	fimāriīs
Accusative	fimārium	fimāria
Ablative	fimāriō	fimāriīs
Vocative	fimārium	fimāria

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

Descendants

• Catalan: femer
• French: fumier
• Sicilian: fumeri

References

• Fimarium 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fimarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 427/2