libatorium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin lībō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōriusnom.

Latin -tōrium

Latin lībātōrium

From lībō (“to make a libation”) + -tōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liː.baːˈtoː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [li.baˈtɔː.ri.um]

Noun

lībātōrium n (genitive lībātōriī or lībātōrī); second declension

1. libation vessel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lībātōrium	lībātōria
genitive	lībātōriī lībātōrī1	lībātōriōrum
dative	lībātōriō	lībātōriīs
accusative	lībātōrium	lībātōria
ablative	lībātōriō	lībātōriīs
vocative	lībātōrium	lībātōria

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

References

• “libatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "libatorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “libatorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.