conisterium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κονιστήριον (konistḗrion, “arena in a wrestling school; place covered in dust”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.nisˈteː.ri.um/, [kɔnɪs̠ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.nisˈte.ri.um/, [konisˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

conistērium n (genitive conistēriī or conistērī); second declension

1. A room in the ancient palaestra or thermae (baths) where wrestlers, after being anointed with oil, were sprinkled with sand, so as to give them a grip when wrestling.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	conistērium	conistēria
Genitive	conistēriī conistērī1	conistēriōrum
Dative	conistēriō	conistēriīs
Accusative	conistērium	conistēria
Ablative	conistēriō	conistēriīs
Vocative	conistērium	conistēria

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

References

• “conisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conisterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.