candelabrum
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin candēlābrum (“candlestick”), from candēla.[1] Doublet of chandelier. Displaced native Old English candeltrēow (literally “candle tree”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kændɪˈlɑːbɹəm/[1]
- IPA(key): /kændɪˈleɪbɹəm/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkæn.dl̩ˈɑ.bɹəm/, /ˌkæn.dl̩ˈæ.bɹəm/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: can‧de‧la‧brum
Noun edit
candelabrum (plural candelabra or (very rare) candelabrums)
- A candle holder.
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 17:
- The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble, where the glass […] Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra / Reflecting light upon the table as / The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it, […]
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 6, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 58:
- Cyby followed us holding up his candelabrum—I suppose more for his benefit than mine, but it permitted me to see well enough to keep from colliding with the dark oak shelves we passed.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
candle holder
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References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “candelabrum”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From candēla (“candle”) + -brum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kan.deːˈlaː.brum/, [kän̪d̪eːˈɫ̪äːbrʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kan.deˈla.brum/, [kän̪d̪eˈläːbrum]
Noun edit
candēlābrum n (genitive candēlābrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Genitive | candēlābrī | candēlābrōrum |
Dative | candēlābrō | candēlābrīs |
Accusative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Ablative | candēlābrō | candēlābrīs |
Vocative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aragonese: candeler
- Catalan: canelobre
- Dutch: kandelaar
- English: candelabrum, chandelier
- French: candélabre, chandelier
- German: Kandelaber
- Hungarian: kandeláber
- Ido: kandelabro
- Italian: candelabro
- Polish: kandelabr
- Portuguese: candelabro
- Russian: канделя́бр (kandeljábr)
- Sardinian:
- Sardinian: candelobre
- Sassarese: canderabru
- Spanish: candelabro
Further reading edit
- “candelabrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “candelabrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- candelabrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “candelabrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “candelabrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin