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Vivarium
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Vi-va′ri-um
,Noun.
pl. E.
Vivariums
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, L. Vivaria
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. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Definition 2024
vivarium
vivarium
English
Noun
vivarium (plural vivariums or vivaria)
- A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.
Translations
Artificial environment for animals
References
- vivarium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.
Noun
vivarium m (plural vivariums)
Latin
Etymology
From vīvus (“living thing”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /wiːˈwaː.ri.um/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈva.ri.um/
Noun
vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
| genitive | vīvāriī | vīvāriōrum |
| dative | vīvāriō | vīvāriīs |
| accusative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
| ablative | vīvāriō | vīvāriīs |
| vocative | vīvārium | vīvāria |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- vivarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vivarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- VIVARIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- vivarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vivarium in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press