-arium (s), -aria (pl)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; a place for; abounding in or connected with something; a place containing or related to that which is specified by the root)
aquarium (s), aquaria (pl)
1. A water-filled transparent container, often box-shaped, in which fish and other water animals and plants are kept.
2. A tank, bowl, or other water-filled enclosure in which living fish or other aquatic animals and plants are kept.
3. A building in which fish and other water animals are kept and shown to the public.
4. A place for the public exhibition of live aquatic animals and plants.
An aquarium is also known as a vivarium, and is usually contained in a clear-sided container (typically constructed of glass or high-strength plastic) in which water-dwelling plants and animals (usually fish, and sometimes invertebrates, as well as amphibians, marine mammals, and reptiles) are kept in captivity, often for public display; or it is an establishment featuring such displays.
A wide variety of aquaria are now kept by hobbyists, ranging from a simple bowl housing a single fish to complex ecosystems with carefully engineered support systems. Aquaria are usually classified as containing fresh or salt water, at tropical or cold water temperatures.
armamentarium
aspidarium
barium
What is done when people are dead.
biophysical profile
A system of estimating current fetal status determined by analysis of five variables via ultrasonography and non-stress testing.
Fetal breathing movements, gross body movement, fetal tone, amniotic fluid volume, and fetal heart rate reactivity are compared to specific criteria.
caldarium
cinerarium (s), cineraia (pl)
A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead.
clavicularium
columbarium (s), columbaria (pl)
1. From Latin, columba, dove (pigeon); then it came to mean "a sepurchre for urns" and a "dovecote".
2. Also known as a columbary, a vault with nitches for urns containing ashes of the dead; a niche in such a vault.
3. A dovecote, or a pigeonhole in a dovecote (or dovecot), is a roost for domesticated pigeons.
formicarium
fumarium
A place for smoking; a smoke chamber.
herbarium
hippolarium, hipposolarium
A place with a large expanse of glass windows where special therapeutic treatment is provided for horses by means of exposure to sunlight.
honoraria (pl), honorarium (s)
Gratuity or financial gift.
Honorary payments; fees for professional services on which no fixed prices were set. In other words, someone receives a payment based on the generosity of the one who submits payment for a person's service.
This word is a short form of honorarium donum, "a present made on being admitted to an honor".
insectarium
1. Place for keeping and breeding insects for scientific purposes.
2. A place in which a collection of living insects is kept; such as, in a zoo.