viridarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• viridiārium

Etymology

From viridis (“green in colour”) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯i.riˈdaː.ri.um/, [u̯ɪrɪˈd̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.riˈda.ri.um/, [viriˈd̪äːrium]

Noun

viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension

1. plantation (of trees)
2. arboretum, a pleasure-garden
3. (hunting) preserve

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	viridārium	viridāria
Genitive	viridāriī viridārī1	viridāriōrum
Dative	viridāriō	viridāriīs
Accusative	viridārium	viridāria
Ablative	viridāriō	viridāriīs
Vocative	viridārium	viridāria

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

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: vërzé
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vèrgiér
  • Old French: vergier
    • Middle French: vergier
      • French: verger
    • → Italian: verziere (or perhaps from Piedmontese)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: verger
  • Old Occitan: vergier
    • Auvergnat: verdièir, verdèir
    • Gascon: vergèr
    • Languedocien: vergièr, verdièr
    • Limousin: vergier
    • Provençal: vergier
    • Vivaro-Alpine: vergier
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: vergeu
      • Galician: verxel
      • Portuguese: vergel
    • → Spanish: vergel
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: viridário

References

• “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viridarium 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)
• viridarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “viridarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers