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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
lectisternium (plural lectisterniums or lectisternia)
- (historical) An ancient "feast of the gods", at which images of the gods were set on couches around a feast table.
Latin
Etymology
From lectus (“couch”) + sternō (“to spread out”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
lectisternium n (genitive lectisterniī or lectisternī); second declension
- lectisternium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lectisternium 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)
- lectisternium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hold a lectisternium: lectisternium facere, habere (Liv. 22. 1. 18)
- “lectisternium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lectisternium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin