vivarium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium.

Noun

vivarium (plural vivariums or vivaria)

1. A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

References

• “vivarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.va.ʁjɔm/

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Noun

vivarium m (plural vivariums)

1. vivarium

Further reading

• “vivarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology

From vīvus (“living thing”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈu̯aː.ri.um/, [u̯iːˈu̯äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈva.ri.um/, [viˈväːrium]

Noun

vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī or vīvārī); second declension

1. park, preserve, enclosure

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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