velarium

English

Etymology

From Latin velarium

Noun

velarium (plural velaria or velariums)

  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

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Noun

vēlārium n (genitive vēlāriī or vēlārī); second declension

  1. awning
  2. covering (over a theatre)

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vēlārium vēlāria
Genitive vēlāriī
vēlārī1		 vēlāriōrum
Dative vēlāriō vēlāriīs
Accusative vēlārium vēlāria
Ablative vēlāriō vēlāriīs
Vocative vēlārium vēlāria

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

Descendants
  • Byzantine Greek: βηλάριον (bēlárion), βηλάρι (bēlári)
  • English: velarium
  • Italian: velario
  • Piedmontese: velari

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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