glirarium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin glirarium. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm === Noun === glirarium (plural gliraria) A terracotta pot used in Roman times to breed dormice for consumption as food. == Latin == === Etymology === From glis (“dormouse”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”). === Noun === glīrārium n (genitive glīrāriī or glīrārī); second declension a glirarium, a terracotta pot used for breeding dormice for eating. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “glirarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “glirarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.