mellarium

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

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

mellārium n (genitive mellāriī or mellārī); second declension

1. A beehive, apiary.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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

• “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)