bicarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• pīcārium

Etymology

Probably after Ancient Greek *βικάριον (*bikárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos, “vase”). The historical relation with the somewhat synonymous bacarium  (from bacriō with alternative form bacariō  or from bacar?) is unclear.

Noun

bīcārium (n declension, second)

1. (Late Latin) drinking glass

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	bicarium	bicaria
genitive	bicariī bicarī1	bicariōrum
dative	bicariō	bicariīs
accusative	bicarium	bicaria
ablative	bicariō	bicariīs
vocative	bicarium	bicaria

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

Derived terms

• Italian: bicchiere
• Old French: bichier, pichier
  • French: pichet
  • Norman: pichet
  • → Catalan: pitxer
  • → Middle English: picher
    • English: pitcher
    • Scots: pichar
• Ladin: bicer
• Venetan: bicer, bicere, bicèr, bicér
• → Proto-West Germanic: *bikārī (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• bicarium 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)