pilentum
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pilentum (plural pilentums or pilenta)
- (historical, Roman antiquity) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels etc. for sacred rites were carried.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pilentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Gaulish.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /piːˈlen.tum/, [piːˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈlen.tum/, [piˈlɛn̪t̪um]
Noun edit
pīlentum n (genitive pīlentī); second declension
- a chariot used by Roman ladies
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
| Genitive | pīlentī | pīlentōrum |
| Dative | pīlentō | pīlentīs |
| Accusative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
| Ablative | pīlentō | pīlentīs |
| Vocative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
References edit
- “pilentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pilentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.