velarium

From Latin velarium. Doublet of veghar.

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈlɛəɹi.əm/

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velarium (plural velaria or velariums)

1. (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
2. (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
3. A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
   • 2007 October 15, David Clay Large, Berlin, Basic Books, →ISBN:

     In accordance with the epochal significance of the occasion, Berlin was decked out as never before in its history. […] A velarium suspended over Unter den Linden depicted the great military victories that had finally brought Germany its unity.

   • 2009 September 28, Michael Barron, Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 134:

     Royal Albert Hall [was dedicated] by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). As The Times reported on the next day: 'The address [...] was somewhat marred by an echo [...]'. To Col. Scott, the designer of the huge roof structure, this acoustic problem was a mere irritant which could be solved by a velarium of cloth (weighing 1+¹⁄₄ tons) stretched underneath the roof. But in spite of experiments with the height of the velarium, the echo persisted […]

• velarial

From vēlum (“sail, curtain, awning”) + -ārium (“place for”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈɫaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈlaː.ri.um]

vēlārium n (genitive vēlāriī or vēlārī); second declension

1. awning
2. covering (over a theatre)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• Byzantine Greek: βηλάριον (bēlárion), βηλάρι (bēlári)
  • Greek: βηλάρι (vilári)
  • Middle Armenian: վեղար (veġar)
    • Armenian: վեղար (veġar)
• English: velarium
• Italian: velario
• Piedmontese: velari

• “velarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “velarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "velarium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “velarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “velarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin velarium or French vélarium.

velarium n (uncountable)

1. velarium