scrinium

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ni.um/, [ˈskriː.ni.ũ]

Noun

scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī); second declension

1. case or chest for books or papers

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Genitive	scrīniī scrīnī1	scrīniōrum
Dative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Accusative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Ablative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Vocative	scrīnium	scrīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Bulgarian: скрин (skrin)
• Catalan: escriny
• Czech: * skříň
• Dutch: schrijn
• Old English: scrīn
  • Middle English: shryne
    • English: shrine
• Old French: escrin, escriene, escreigne
  • Breton: skrin
  • English: scrine
  • French: écrin
  • Hungarian: szekrény
  • Icelandic: skríni
  • Swedish: skrin
• German: Schrein
• Italian: scrigno
• Old Norse skrín
• Portuguese: escrínio
• Slovak: skriňa
• Slovene: skrinja

References

• scrinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scrinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scrinium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers