viridarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• viridiārium

Etymology

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

Noun

viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension

1. plantation (of trees)
2. arboretum
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

• Catalan: verger
• French: verger
• Italian: verziere
• Occitan: vergièr

• Old French: vergier
• Old Occitan: vergier
• Portuguese: vergel, viridário
• Spanish: vergel

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