mellarium

== Latin == === Etymology === Substantive from mellārius (“of or pertaining to honey”), from mel (“honey”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛlˈlaː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [melˈlaː.ri.um] === Noun === mellārium n (genitive mellāriī or mellārī); second declension A beehive, apiary. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (beehive): alvārium, alveārium, alveus, alvus, apiārium, cavea ==== Related terms ==== === References === “mellarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "mellarium", 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)