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English
Etymology
Latin pluteus
Noun
pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)
- (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
- (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin. 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”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension
- A form of protective shed or breastwork.
- A moveable screen.
- A bookcase, bookshelf
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “pluteus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 328
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2426, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2426
- ^ 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