promptuarium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prōmptus (“readiness”) -ārium (of purpose), via *promptuārius. The u in the spelling is due to the fourth declension noun.
Noun
[edit]prōmptuārium n (genitive prōmptuāriī or prōmptuārī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prōmptuārium | prōmptuāria |
| genitive | prōmptuāriī prōmptuārī1 |
prōmptuāriōrum |
| dative | prōmptuāriō | prōmptuāriīs |
| accusative | prōmptuārium | prōmptuāria |
| ablative | prōmptuāriō | prōmptuāriīs |
| vocative | prōmptuārium | prōmptuāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- English: promptuary (“preparatory”) (archaic)
- Italian: prontuario (“handbook”)
References
[edit]- “promptuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- promptuarium 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)
- promptuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.