pulpitum
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.
Noun
editpulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)
- A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
Latin
editEtymology
editOf obscure origin, but said to be an Ancient Greek borrowing.[1] According to the American Heritage Dictionary, possibly a back-formation from plural pulpita, perhaps (via Etruscan *pulputa or *pulpta), from Ancient Greek πολύποδα (polúpoda), neuter plural of πολύπους (polúpous, “trodden by many feet, having many feet”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpʊɫ̪pɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpulpit̪um]
Noun
editpulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pulpitum | pulpita |
Genitive | pulpitī | pulpitōrum |
Dative | pulpitō | pulpitīs |
Accusative | pulpitum | pulpita |
Ablative | pulpitō | pulpitīs |
Vocative | pulpitum | pulpita |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: púlpit
- → English: pulpitum
- → French: pupitre
- Friulian: pulpit
- Italian: pulpito
- Lombard: pulpit
- → Middle English: pulpit, pulpet, pollepyt, pullpite, polepitt, pulpitte, pulpytt, pulpette, pulpite
- → Middle High German: pulpet
- → Norwegian: pult
- Piedmontese: pùlpit
- → Polish: pulpit
- Portuguese: púlpito
- → Romanian: pulpitum
- Spanish: púlpito
References
edit- “pulpitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pulpitum 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)
- pulpitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pulpitum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pulpitum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ Szemerényi, Considine, Hooker, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2
Romanian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.
Noun
editpulpitum n (uncountable)
Declension
edit declension of pulpitum (singular only)
singular | ||
---|---|---|
n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) pulpitum | pulpitumul |
genitive/dative | (unui) pulpitum | pulpitumului |
vocative | pulpitumule |
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English unadapted borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- Latin terms with unknown etymologies
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms borrowed from Etruscan
- Latin terms derived from Etruscan
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- la:Theater
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian unadapted borrowings from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian uncountable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Romanian learned borrowings from Latin