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English
Etymology
From Latin feretrum.
Noun
feretrum (plural feretra)
- A kind of medieval reliquary or shrine containing the sacred effigies and relics of a saint.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), crossed with or analysed as fero + -trum. Doublet of ferculum, which features another variant of the same suffix.
Pronunciation
Noun
feretrum n (genitive feretrī); second declension
- litter, bier
- (New Latin) hearse
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- feretrum 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)
- feretrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “feretrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “feretrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Patrick M. Owens “Silva (old)”, in Neo-Latin Lexicon, Patrick M. Owens