vestiarium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Medieval Latin vestiārium.

Noun[edit]

vestiarium (plural vestiaria) (historical)

  1. vestry
  2. wardrobe

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

vestis +‎ -ārium

Noun[edit]

vestiārium n (genitive vestiāriī or vestiārī); second declension

  1. wardrobe
  2. (Medieval Latin) vestry
  3. (Medieval Latin) treasury (of a church or monastery, or the papal court)
  4. (Medieval Latin) the taxable estates handled by a church treasury
  5. (Medieval Latin) archive

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vestiārium vestiāria
Genitive vestiāriī
vestiārī1
vestiāriōrum
Dative vestiāriō vestiāriīs
Accusative vestiārium vestiāria
Ablative vestiāriō vestiāriīs
Vocative vestiārium vestiāria

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

Descendants[edit]

  • Byzantine Greek: βεστιάριον (bestiárion)

References[edit]

  • vestiarium 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)
  • vestiarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vestiarium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1079