aviarium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.u̯iˈaː.ri.um/, [äu̯iˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.viˈa.ri.um/, [äviˈäːrium]

Etymology 1

From avis (“bird”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

aviārium n (genitive aviāriī or aviārī); second declension

1. aviary; a place where birds are kept

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	aviārium	aviāria
genitive	aviāriī aviārī1	aviāriōrum
dative	aviāriō	aviāriīs
accusative	aviārium	aviāria
ablative	aviāriō	aviāriīs
vocative	aviārium	aviāria

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

Related terms

• aucella / avicella
• auceps
• aviārius
• avicula
• aviculārius
• avipēs
• avis

 

Descendants

• English: aviary

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

aviārium

1. inflection of aviārius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

aviārium

1. accusative singular of aviārius (“a bird-keeper”)

References

• “aviarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aviarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aviarium 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)
• “aviarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

aviarium n (definite singular aviariet, indefinite plural aviarier, definite plural aviaria or aviariene)

1. an aviary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

aviarium n (definite singular aviariet, indefinite plural aviarium, definite plural aviaria)

1. an aviary