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English
Etymology
From Latin flabellum (“fan”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)
- A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
- (botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From flābrum (“breeze”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
flābellum n (genitive flābellī); second declension
- A small (hand-held) fan, especially for keeping off flies.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) flabellum.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flabellum 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)
- flabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “flabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “flabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin