viridarium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === viridiārium === Etymology === From viridis (“green in colour”) +‎ -ārium (improperly for an adjective), via *viridārius. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɪ.rɪˈdaː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vi.riˈdaː.ri.um] === Noun === viridārium n (genitive viridāriī or viridārī); second declension plantation (of trees) arboretum, a pleasure-garden (hunting) preserve ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “viridarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "viridarium", 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) “viridarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “viridarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers