dictionarium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪk.ti.oːˈnaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [dik.t͡si.oˈnaː.ri.um]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti

Proto-Italic *deikō

Latin dīcō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dictiō

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -ārius

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Latin -um

Latin -ārium

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Latin dictiō

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Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Latin dictiōnārius?

Latin dictiōnārium

From dictiō + -ārium, or possibly from older dictiōnārius. First attested in 1481.

Noun

dictiōnārium n (genitive dictiōnāriī); second declension

1. (Renaissance Latin) dictionary

Usage notes

• Used especially in book titles, normally with adjective like Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum (“Latin–Portuguese Dictionary”), Dictionarium Latinogermanicum/Latino–Germanicum (“Latin–German Dictionary”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	dictiōnārium	dictiōnāria
genitive	dictiōnāriī	dictiōnāriōrum
dative	dictiōnāriō	dictiōnāriīs
accusative	dictiōnārium	dictiōnāria
ablative	dictiōnāriō	dictiōnāriīs
vocative	dictiōnārium	dictiōnāria

Descendants

• → Asturian: diccionariu (learned)
• → Aromanian: dictsiunar (learned)
• → Bourguignon: diccionâre (learned)
• → Catalan: diccionari (learned)
• → Corsican: dizziunariu (learned)
• → Fala: diccionariu (learned)
• → Galician: dicionario (learned)
• → Italian: dizionario (learned)
  • → Neapolitan: dizziunario
  • → Sardinian: ditzionàriu
• → Middle English: dixionare (learned)
  • English: dictionary
• → Middle French: dictionnaire (learned)
  • French: dictionnaire
    • Haitian Creole: diksyonè
    • Louisiana Creole: diksyonær, diksyonè, diksyonèr
    • Mauritian Creole: diksioner
    • → Dutch: dictionaire
    • → German: Diktionär
    • → Franco-Provençal: diccionèro
    • → Luxembourgish: Dictionnaire
    • → Romanian: dicționar
    • → Turkish: diksiyoner
• → Hungarian: szótár (calque)
• → Neapolitan: dezziunario (learned)
• → Norman: dictionnaithe (learned, Jersey)
• → Occitan: diccionari (learned)
• → Piedmontese: dissionari (learned)
• → Portuguese: dicionário (learned)
  • → Tetum: disionáriu
• → Romanian: dicționar (learned)
• → Romansh: dicziunari (learned)
• → Sardinian: dizionariu (learned)
• → Scots: dictionar (learned)
• → Sicilian: dizziunariu (learned)
  • → Maltese: dizzjunarju
• → Spanish: diccionario (learned)
  • → Tagalog: diksiyonaryo

Etymology 2

Noun

dictiōnārium

1. accusative singular of dictiōnārius

Further reading

• “dictionarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• dictionarium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016