flabellum

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English

WOTD – 13 April 2007

Etymology

From Latin flabellum (“fan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fləˈbɛləm/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛləm

Noun

flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)

  1. A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
  2. (botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From flābrum (“breeze”) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

flābellum n (genitive flābellī); second declension

  1. A small (hand-held) fan, especially for keeping off flies.
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) flabellum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative flābellum flābella
Genitive flābellī flābellōrum
Dative flābellō flābellīs
Accusative flābellum flābella
Ablative flābellō flābellīs
Vocative flābellum flābella

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: flabellum, flabel
  • → Portuguese: flabelo

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
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