pluteus

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English

Etymology

From Latin pluteus.

Noun

pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)

  1. (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
  2. (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin.[1] Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (cross-beam), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plauts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (flotsam)).[2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension

  1. A form of protective shed or breastwork.
  2. A moveable screen.
  3. A bookcase, bookshelf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “pluteus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 328
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2426”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2426
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pluteus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476
  • pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pluteus 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)
  • pluteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pluteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pluteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin