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 === Uncertain. De Vaan suggests that the term could derive from Proto-Italic *morto-, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tó-, itself from a possible root *mer- (“to die”), whence also Latin morior. The root *merh₂-, whence also perhaps Proto-Celtic *marnati, may be an extension of the root *mer-. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔrˈtaː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [morˈtaː.ri.um] === 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). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], 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