essedum

English

Noun

essedum (plural essedums)

1. (archaic) A chariot, especially a Roman one.
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 38, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson:

     [T]he ancient Briton, finding that his neighbor’s essedum—chariot, or rather cart—had worn the ruts too deep[.]

Latin

Etymology

Of Celtic origin, from Gaulish asseda, from Proto-Celtic *eks-dī-sedo-, the root of which is from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”); cognate with Old Breton assedam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈes.se.dum/, [ˈɛs̠ːɛd̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.se.dum/, [ˈɛsːed̪um]

Noun

essedum n (genitive essedī); second declension

1. chariot
2. carriage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	essedum	esseda
Genitive	essedī	essedōrum
Dative	essedō	essedīs
Accusative	essedum	esseda
Ablative	essedō	essedīs
Vocative	essedum	esseda

Derived terms

• essedārius

References

• “essedum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• essedum 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)
• “essedum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “essedum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Piggott, Stuart (1983): The earliest wheeled transport: from the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea