repositorium

Latin

Etymology

From repōnō (“restore, store”, verb) +‎ -ium

Noun

repositōrium n (genitive repositōriī); second declension

  1. something on which something else is placed
  2. a tray for carrying dishes to the table
  3. a repository or cabinet
  4. (medieval) chest, treasure chest
  5. (medieval) storehouse
  6. (medieval) tomb, burial vault

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative repositōrium repositōria
genitive repositōriī
repositōrī1		 repositōriōrum
dative repositōriō repositōriīs
accusative repositōrium repositōria
ablative repositōriō repositōriīs
vocative repositōrium repositōria

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

Descendents

References

  • repositorium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “repositorium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill
  • repositorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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