ponderarium
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pon.deˈraː.ri.um/, [pɔn̪d̪ɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pon.deˈra.ri.um/, [pon̪d̪eˈräːrium]
Noun
ponderārium n (genitive ponderāriī or ponderārī); second declension
- the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “ponderarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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