pulpitum
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.
Noun edit
pulpitum (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 edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpʊɫ̪pɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpulpit̪um]
Noun edit
pulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension
Declension edit
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 |
Related terms edit
Descendants 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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.
Noun edit
pulpitum 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 | |