fertum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Old Latin ferctum, firctum (“a ritual bread made with honey and oil”), from Proto-Italic *ferktom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-g-tos, from the root *bʰer- (“to roast, bake, boil, cook, burn”); cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω (phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्ज् (bhṛjj, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग् (bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”), Old Irish bairgen (“bread”), Oscan fertalis, Umbrian frehtu.[1][2] Related to frīgō (“I fry”); doublet of frīctum (“fried”).
Noun edit
fertum n (genitive fertī); second declension
- A sort of sacrificial cake
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fertum | ferta |
| Genitive | fertī | fertōrum |
| Dative | fertō | fertīs |
| Accusative | fertum | ferta |
| Ablative | fertō | fertīs |
| Vocative | fertum | ferta |
References edit
- “fertum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fertum 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)
- fertum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bher-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 136-137
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “frīgō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243