itinerarium

English

Tabula Peutingeriana, an example of an itinerarium

Etymology

From Latin itinerārium.

Noun

itinerarium (plural itineraria)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman road map in the form of a listing of cities, villages and other stops, with the intervening distances.

Further reading

• itinerarium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From iter (“journey”, stem itiner-) +‎ -ārium (of purpose).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.ti.neˈraː.ri.um/, [ɪt̪ɪnɛˈräːriʊ̃ˑ]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.ti.neˈra.ri.um/, [it̪ineˈräːrium]

Noun

itinerārium n (genitive itinerāriī or itinerārī); second declension

1. itinerarium, itinerary (road map listing locations with the intervening distances)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	itinerārium	itinerāria
Genitive	itinerāriī itinerārī1	itinerāriōrum
Dative	itinerāriō	itinerāriīs
Accusative	itinerārium	itinerāria
Ablative	itinerāriō	itinerāriīs
Vocative	itinerārium	itinerāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: itinerari
• Czech: itinerář
• → English: itinerary, itinerarium
• French: itinéraire
• Italian: itinerario
• Portuguese: itinerário
• Spanish: itinerario

References

• “itinerarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• itinerarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• itinerarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.