ponderarium
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pon.deˈraː.ri.um/, [pɔn̪d̪ɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pon.deˈra.ri.um/, [pon̪d̪eˈräːrium]
Noun
[edit]ponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension
- the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
| genitive | ponderāriī ponderārī1 |
ponderāriōrum |
| dative | ponderāriō | ponderāriīs |
| accusative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
| ablative | ponderāriō | ponderāriīs |
| vocative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “ponderarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press