different between awning vs velarium

English

Etymology

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +? -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bann? (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *band? (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• Rhymes: -??n??

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Angwin, waning

English

Etymology

From Latin velarium. Doublet of veghar.

Noun

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

Related terms

• velarial

Latin

Etymology

From v?lum (“sail, curtain, awning”) +? -?rium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?e??la?.ri.um/, [u?e????ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve?la.ri.um/, [v??l???ium]

Noun

v?l?rium n (genitive v?l?ri? or v?l?r?); second declension

1. awning
2. covering (over a theatre)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ???????? (b?lárion), ?????? (b?lári)
  • Greek: ?????? (vilári)
  • Middle Armenian: ????? (ve?ar)
    • Armenian: ????? (ve?ar)
• English: velarium
• Italian: velario
• Piedmontese: velari

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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