bacarium

Forms

bacārium n (genitive bacāriī); second declension^[1] The glossaries also have the spellings baccarium, bagarium and becarius.^[2][3]

Etymology

The origin is uncertain.^[2] The TLL compares bacar (“a wine vessel”), which it suggests may come from bacca (“wine”), a word that Varro reports as Hispanic for wine.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is known only from the Latin glossaries, which explain it as a water vessel, “a kind of small jug”, and once as a wine vessel.^[2][3][4]

Semantic evolution

The word stayed a glossary word.^[2][1] The medieval Latin of the Czech lands used it for a basin as well as for a vessel for water or wine.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A vessel for water, a kind of small jug.^[2][3][1]
2. A vessel for wine.^[4][1]
3. (Medieval Latin) A basin.^[5]

Related words

• bacar

References

1. ^ a b c d Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
2. ^ a b c d e f Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích (1977–), Prague: Academia; electronic version, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences