tabernaculum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From taberna (“hut, cabin”) + -culum; in Biblical use, translating the Septuagint word σκηνή (skēnḗ, “tent”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ta.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [t̪äbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ta.berˈna.ku.lum/, [t̪äberˈnäːkulum]
Noun edit
tabernāculum n (genitive tabernāculī); second declension
- A tent.
- Synonym: tentōrium
- A tabernacle.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tabernāculum | tabernācula |
| Genitive | tabernāculī | tabernāculōrum |
| Dative | tabernāculō | tabernāculīs |
| Accusative | tabernāculum | tabernācula |
| Ablative | tabernāculō | tabernāculīs |
| Vocative | tabernāculum | tabernācula |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: tabernacle
- French: tabernacle
- Italian: tabernacolo
- Polish: tabernakulum
- Portuguese: tabernáculo
- Spanish: tabernáculo
References edit
- “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tabernaculum 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)
- tabernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tabernaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tabernaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin