velarium

English

Etymology

From Latin velarium.

Noun

velarium (plural velaria)

  1. (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
  2. (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for velarium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

From vēlum (“sail, curtain, awning”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /weːˈlaː.ri.um/, [weːˈɫaː.ri.ũ]

Noun

vēlārium n (genitive vēlāriī); second declension

  1. awning
  2. covering (over a theatre)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vēlārium vēlāria
genitive vēlāriī vēlāriōrum
dative vēlāriō vēlāriīs
accusative vēlārium vēlāria
ablative vēlāriō vēlāriīs
vocative vēlārium vēlāria

Descendants

  • Byzantine Greek: βηλάριον (bēlárion), βηλάρι (bēlári)
  • English: velarium

References

  • velarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • velarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • velarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • velarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • velarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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