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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.

Noun

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pulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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Of 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

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Noun

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pulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension

  1. platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
  2. stage (for actors)

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulpitum pulpita
Genitive pulpitī pulpitōrum
Dative pulpitō pulpitīs
Accusative pulpitum pulpita
Ablative pulpitō pulpitīs
Vocative pulpitum pulpita
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Descendants

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References

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  • 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
  1. ^ Szemerényi, Considine, Hooker, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.

Noun

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pulpitum n (uncountable)

  1. pulpitum

Declension

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