conditorium

conditorium

Latin

Noun

conditōrium n (genitive conditōriī or conditōrī); second declension

1. repository
2. tomb, coffin, sarcophagus
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 2.18:

     Per idem tempus conditōrium et corpus Magnī Alexandrī, cum prōlātum ē penetrālī subiēcisset oculīs, corōnā aureā impositā ac flōribus aspersīs venerātus est cōnsultusque, num et Ptolemaeum īnspicere vellet, rēgem sē voluisse ait vidēre, nōn mortuōs.

     Around the same time he paid honours to the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great, when he examined it taken out of the mausoleum, by putting on it a golden crown and spreading flowers, and was asked whether he also wished to see the Ptolemaean mausoleum, he said that he wanted to see a king, not corpses.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	conditōrium	conditōria
Genitive	conditōriī conditōrī1	conditōriōrum
Dative	conditōriō	conditōriīs
Accusative	conditōrium	conditōria
Ablative	conditōriō	conditōriīs
Vocative	conditōrium	conditōria

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

References

• “conditorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conditorium 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)
• conditorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “conditorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “conditorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin