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Latin
Etymology
From frīgō (“fry”). Attested, in the feminine form ⟨frixuriae⟩, in Venantius Fortunatus.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
frixōrium n (genitive frixōriī or frixōrī); second declension (Late Latin)
- frying-pan, skillet
ca. AD 960–70 (manuscript date)
[2], unknown,
Latin Psalters psalm 101:4:
- et ossa mea sicut in frixorio confrixa sunt
- my bones are roasted, as if in a skillet
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
References
- “frixorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frixorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- frixorium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 961: “la padella (ill.)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frīxoria”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 814
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