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albarium
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English
Etymology
Noun
albarium
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From album (“the colour white”) + -ārium (of purpose), via albārius (“relating to whiteness”), shortening of albārium opus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈbaː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈbaː.ri.um]
Noun
albārium n (genitive albāriī or albārī); second declension
- white stucco, whitewash; a mortar of lime, gypsum, and river sand used to cover walls and make them white.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: albarium
Adjective
albārium
- inflection of albārius:
References
- "albarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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