hemisphaerium

From Ancient Greek ἡμισφαίριον (hēmisphaírion).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /heː.misˈpʰae̯.ri.um/, [heːmɪs̠ˈpʰäe̯riʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.misˈfe.ri.um/, [emisˈfɛːrium]

hēmisphaerium n (genitive hēmisphaeriī or hēmisphaerī); second declension

1. hemisphere
2. cupola, dome

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• → Old French: emisphere
  • → English: hemisphere
  • → French: hémisphère
• → Portuguese: hemisfério

• “hemisphaerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hemisphaerium 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)
• hemisphaerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.