-arium

Morpheme

-arium

Type

suffix

Denotation

place or device associated with a specified thing or function (Latin plural -aria)

Etymology

Latin -ārium, from -ārius

Evidence

aquarium, armamentarium, calendarium, calvarium, colluviarium, columbarium, dolphinarium, germovitellarium, herbarium, insectarium, instrumentarium, itinerarium, lararium, ophidiarium, paludarium, planetarium, rivarium, sacrarium, serpentarium, solarium, syllabarium, velarium, vitellarium

Notes

not to be confused with -ium

See Also

-(a)r [-ar, -r], -ary, -arian, -arian, -ara, -aire, -aria, -ariae, -ario, -eer, -iere, -ier, -yer, -ero, -era, -er, -eiro, -aria, -arius, -arii, -ari, -arious, -areous, -etary, -etarian, -itary, -itaire, -itarian, -aric, -arism, -arist, -arize, -arise