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Latin
Etymology
From pectorālis (“of or pertaining to the breast”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pectorāle n (genitive pectorālis); third declension
- anything worn around the chest
- breastplate, a form of armour of a human or mount
- Synonym: lōrica
- breastgirth, breastplate, breaststrap, a contrivance on a mount preventing the saddle from sliding back
- Synonym: antilēna
- breastgirth, breastband, breaststrap, supporting the mammaries of a human female
- Synonyms: amictōrium, mamillāre, fascia pectorālis, strophium
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Descendants
References
- pectorale 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)
- “pectorale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers