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Latin
Etymology
From archi- (“arch-, highest”) + trīclīnium (“dining room”) + -us.
Pronunciation
Noun
architrīclīnus m (genitive architrīclīnī); second declension
- (Late Latin) master of a feast (who presides at table)
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate John.2.8:
- Et dicit eis Iesus: haurite nunc et ferte architriclino, et tulerunt.
- And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it and take it to the master of the feast”, and they took it.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “architriclinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- architriclinus 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)
- architriclinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “architrīclīnus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 22