mortarium
English
Etymology
From Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɔːˈtɛːɹɪəm/
Noun
mortarium (plural mortaria)
- (archaeology) A kind of mortar used by ancient Romans for grinding.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mer(H)- (“to rub”). Perhaps cognate with murcus, murcidus, marceō, morbus, Ancient Greek μαραίνω (maraínō), μαρασμός (marasmós), μάρναμαι (márnamai), μάρμαρος (mármaros).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /morˈtaː.ri.um/, [mɔrˈt̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /morˈta.ri.um/, [morˈt̪äːrium]
Noun
mortārium n (genitive mortāriī or mortārī); second declension
- mortar (used with a pestle)
- large basin in which mortar (substance) is made
- mortar (mixture of lime, sand, and water)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mortārium | mortāria |
Genitive | mortāriī mortārī1 | mortāriōrum |
Dative | mortāriō | mortāriīs |
Accusative | mortārium | mortāria |
Ablative | mortāriō | mortāriīs |
Vocative | mortārium | mortāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Asturian: morteru
- Catalan: morter
- Friulian: mortâr
- Galician: morteiro
- → German: Mörser, Mörtel
- Italian: mortaio
- Occitan: mortièr
- Old French: mortier
- Middle French: mortier
- French: mortier
- → Middle Dutch: mortier
- Dutch: mortier
- Negerhollands: monti
- → Virgin Islands Creole: monti (dated)
- → Indonesian: mortir
- Negerhollands: monti
- Dutch: mortier
- → Middle English: morter
- English: mortar
- → Indonesian: mortar
- → Welsh: morter, mortar
- English: mortar
- Middle French: mortier
- Portuguese: morteiro
- Romanian: mortar, mortier
- Sardinian: martaju, moltàgiu, murtàgliu, murtarju
- Sicilian: murtaru
- Spanish: mortero
- Venetian: mortèr
References
- “mortarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mortarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mortarium 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)
- mortarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “mortarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mortarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “mortarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin