lardarium

Forms

lardārium n (genitive lardāriī); second declension^[1][2] Variants lardeārium and lardērium are recorded,^[2][3] as is laridārium.^[3]

Etymology

It is from Latin lāridum (“bacon, lard”),^[2] or its contracted form lardum,^[4] with the suffix -ārium of places for storing things.^[2][4] Osbern of Gloucester derived the variant ⟨laridarium⟩ from ⟨laridus⟩.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler finds it first in a text of Adalhard of 822,^[2] where it is a store of bacon or a room for keeping it.^[2]

Semantic evolution

In medieval Latin it meant a room or building where meat, especially salted pork, was stored, a larder, and also the department of a household that ran it.^[3][5][2] British sources use it of the royal larder, of stored meat itself, of the work of laying in salted meat (facere lardarium), and of a rent paid in place of a food rent, the “larder-silver”.^[3] Köbler also records a levy on salting.^[2] The Tironian notes have it for a piece of bacon.^[1]

French had the derivatives lardier and lardage, as a charter of 1313 shows.^[6] English took the word over through Anglo-French as larder.^[4]

Timeline

• 822 – Adalhard has it for a store of bacon.^[2]
• c. 1300 – English borrows it through Anglo-French as larder, a supply of salted meat.^[4]
• 1308 – An English account sends twenty carcasses to the abbot's larder.^[3]
• 1313 – A French charter speaks of dues called le Lardier.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Medieval Latin) A room or building for storing bacon and other meat; a larder.^[2][3][5]
2. (Medieval Latin) The department of a household in charge of stored meat.^[3]
3. (Medieval Latin) Stored meat; a supply of meat.^[3][2]
4. (Medieval Latin) A rent or levy connected with the larder.^[3][2]
5. A piece of bacon.^[1]

Related words

• English larder

References

1. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
4. ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
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
6. ^ a b du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre