inventarium

Latin

Etymology

From inveniō (“I find”) +‎ -ārium (improperly for a verb), via *inventārius.

Noun

inventārium n (genitive inventāriī or inventārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a list, inventory

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inventārium	inventāria
Genitive	inventāriī inventārī1	inventāriōrum
Dative	inventāriō	inventāriīs
Accusative	inventārium	inventāria
Ablative	inventāriō	inventāriīs
Vocative	inventārium	inventāria

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

Descendants

• → Catalan: inventari
• → French: inventaire
  • → Romanian: inventar
  • → Turkish: envanter
• → Galician: inventario
• → Italian: inventario
• → Portuguese: inventário
• → Spanish: inventario

References

• “inventarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inventarium 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)
• “inventarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “inventarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

inventarium n (definite singular inventariet, indefinite plural inventarier, definite plural inventaria or inventariene)

1. inventory

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

inventarium n (definite singular inventariet, indefinite plural inventarium, definite plural inventaria)

1. inventory

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin inventarium, based on invenire (to find), used in Swedish since 1521.

Noun

inventarium n

1. an inventory (a list of items stored, available, or found in a collection)
2. an item (stored, available, or found in a collection)
3. a person who has worked or lived a long time in the same place

Declension

Declension of inventarium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	inventarium	inventariet	inventarier	inventarierna
Genitive	inventariums	inventariets	inventariers	inventariernas

Related terms

• inventarieföra
• inventarieförteckning
• inventera

References

• inventarium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• inventarium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)