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English
Noun
essedum (plural essedums)
- (archaic) A chariot, especially a Roman one.
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 38, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson:he ancient Briton, finding that his neighbor’s essedum—chariot, or rather cart—had worn the ruts too deep[.]
Latin
Etymology
Of Celtic origin, from Gaulish asseda, from Proto-Celtic *eks-dī-sedo-, the root of which is from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”); cognate with Old Breton assedam.
Pronunciation
Noun
essedum n (genitive essedī); second declension
- chariot
- carriage
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
- “essedum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- essedum 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)
- “essedum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “essedum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Piggott, Stuart (1983): The earliest wheeled transport: from the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea