ponderarium
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔn.dɛˈraː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pon̪.d̪eˈraː.ri.um]
Noun
ponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension
- the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
| genitive | ponderāriī ponderārī1 |
ponderāriōrum |
| dative | ponderāriō | ponderāriīs |
| accusative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
| ablative | ponderāriō | ponderāriīs |
| vocative | ponderārium | ponderāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “ponderarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press