| 释义 |
-arium, suffix of ns.,
a. L. -ārium ‘thing connected with or employed in, place for,’ orig. neuter of adjs. in -ārius. Of this the regular adapted form in Eng. is -ary: see -ary1, but the unchanged L. form is used with a few terms of classical and ecclesiastical antiquities, or of learned use, as caldarium, frigidarium, sacrarium, honorarium, herbarium, the last of which, being in general use, has probably popularized the use of vivarium and aquarium. |