congiarium

Latin

Etymology

From congius (“congius, approximately a gallon or two”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

congiārium n (genitive congiāriī or congiārī); second declension

1. A vessel that holds a congius
2. A gift (of that measure) distributed to the people

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	congiārium	congiāria
genitive	congiāriī congiārī1	congiāriōrum
dative	congiāriō	congiāriīs
accusative	congiārium	congiāria
ablative	congiāriō	congiāriīs
vocative	congiārium	congiāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Italian: congiario

References

• “congiarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “congiarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “congiarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “congiarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “congiarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin