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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of vivier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.va.ʁjɔm/

Noun

vivarium m (plural vivariums)

1. vivarium

Further reading

• “vivarium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wiːˈwaː.ri.um/, [wiːˈwaː.ri.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈva.ri.um/, [viˈvaː.ri.um]

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Noun

vīvārium n (genitive vīvāriī); 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, 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