mellarium
Latin
Etymology
Substantive from mellārius (“of or pertaining to honey”), from mel (“honey”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /melˈlaː.ri.um/, [mɛlˈlʲäːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /melˈla.ri.um/, [melˈläːrium]
Noun
mellārium n (genitive mellāriī or mellārī); second declension
- A beehive, apiary.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mellārium | mellāria |
Genitive | mellāriī mellārī1 | mellāriōrum |
Dative | mellāriō | mellāriīs |
Accusative | mellārium | mellāria |
Ablative | mellāriō | mellāriīs |
Vocative | mellārium | mellāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (beehive): alvārium, alveārium, alveus, alvus, apiārium, cavea
Related terms
Related terms
- mel
- melculum
- melina
- melinus
- mella
- mellāceum
- mellārius
- mellātiō
- melleus
- melliculum
- melliculus
- mellifer
- mellifex
- mellificium
- mellificō
- mellificus
- mellifluēns
- mellifluus
- melliger
- mellīgō
- mellilla
- mellinia
- mellītulus
- mellītus
- mellō
- mellōsus
References
- “mellarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mellarium 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)