pegma

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek πῆγμα (pêgma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːɡ.ma/, [ˈpeːɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɡ.ma/, [ˈpɛɡmä]

Noun

pēgma n (genitive pēgmatis); third declension

1. A bookcase

   Synonym: forulī

2. A scaffold
   • from the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Epistle 88) of Seneca the Younger

     His adnumeres licet machinatores, qui pegmata per se surgentia excogitant...

     To this class you may assign the stage-machinists, who invent scaffolding that goes aloft of its own accord...

3. a fixture made of boards, for use or ornament, belonging to a house

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēgma	pēgmata
Genitive	pēgmatis	pēgmatum
Dative	pēgmatī	pēgmatibus
Accusative	pēgma	pēgmata
Ablative	pēgmate	pēgmatibus
Vocative	pēgma	pēgmata

References

• “pegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pegma 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)
• pegma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pegma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pegma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin