mellarium

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from mellārius (“of or pertaining to honey”), from mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /melˈlaː.ri.um/, [mɛlˈlʲäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈla.ri.um/, [melˈläːrium]

Noun

mellārium n (genitive mellāriī or mellārī); second declension

1. A beehive, apiary.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mellārium	mellāria
genitive	mellāriī mellārī1	mellāriōrum
dative	mellāriō	mellāriīs
accusative	mellārium	mellāria
ablative	mellāriō	mellāriīs
vocative	mellārium	mellāria

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

Synonyms

• (beehive): alvārium, alveārium, alveus, alvus, apiārium, cavea

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mella
• mellāceum
• mellārius
• mellātiō
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex
• mellificium
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger
• mellīgō
• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

• “mellarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mellarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)