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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek πῆγμα (pêgma).
Pronunciation
Noun
pēgma n (genitive pēgmatis); third declension
- A bookcase
- Synonym: forulī
- A scaffold
- from the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Epistle 88) of Seneca the Younger
- His adnumeres licet machinatores, qui pegmata per se surgentia excogitant...
- To this class you may assign the stage-machinists, who invent scaffolding that goes aloft of its own accord...
- a fixture made of boards, for use or ornament, belonging to a house
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “pegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pegma 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)
- pegma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pegma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pegma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin