flabellum
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flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)
- A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
- (botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From flābrum (“breeze”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /flaːˈbel.lum/, [fɫ̪äːˈbɛlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /flaˈbel.lum/, [fläˈbɛlːum]
Noun edit
flābellum n (genitive flābellī); second declension
- A small (hand-held) fan, especially for keeping off flies.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) flabellum.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | flābellum | flābella |
Genitive | flābellī | flābellōrum |
Dative | flābellō | flābellīs |
Accusative | flābellum | flābella |
Ablative | flābellō | flābellīs |
Vocative | flābellum | flābella |
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References edit
- “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flabellum 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)
- flabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “flabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “flabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin