Meanings
suffix-orium (noun-forming suffix, plural -oriums or -oria)
- Forming nouns denoting a place for a particular function or thing.
appress + -orium → appressorium
1 more example
“It’s a pickle jar,” said Alice. “It’s one of the new kind called a pickelorium.”
1933 July 9, Ellis Parker Butler, “Enough Is Sufficient”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LII, page 6, columns 2–3Synonyms: -arium
Synonyms & antonyms
suffixForming nouns denoting a place for a particular function or thing.
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Origin
- Latin-ōrium
- Latin-ōrium
- English-orium
Learned borrowing from Latin -ōrium. Doublet of -ory.
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-orium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-orium
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“-orium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-orium. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-orium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-orium.
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