The story
- Latin · derived fromalvearium“beehive”
- English todayalveary
From Latin alvearium (“beehive”). In the sense of the hollow of the ear, because it is where the wax accumulates. In the sense of a repository: originally the name of a dictionary encompassing several languages, because of the many contributors being like "busy bees".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.