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Latin
Etymology
From linteus.
Pronunciation
Noun
linteum n (genitive linteī); second declension
- linen cloth
- (by extension) bedsheet
- sail
- awning
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
linteum
- inflection of linteus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “linteum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “linteum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- linteum 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)
- linteum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “linteum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers