bicarium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === pīcārium === Etymology === Probably after Ancient Greek *βικάριον (*bikárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos, “vase”). The historical relation with the somewhat synonymous bacarium  (from bacriō with alternative form bacariō  or from bacar?) is unclear. === Noun === bīcārium (n declension, second) (Late Latin) drinking glass ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Italian: bicchiere Old French: bichier, pichier French: pichet Norman: pichet → Catalan: pitxer → Middle English: picher English: pitcher Scots: pichar Ladin: bicer Venetan: bicer, bicere, bicèr, bicér → Proto-West Germanic: *bikārī (see there for further descendants) === References === === Further reading === "bicarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)