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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.
Noun
pulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)
- A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
Latin
Etymology
Of obscure origin, but said to be an Ancient Greek borrowing.[1] According to the American Heritage Dictionary, possibly a back-formation from plural pulpita, perhaps (via Etruscan *pulputa or *pulpta), from Ancient Greek πολύποδα (polúpoda), neuter plural of πολύπους (polúpous, “trodden by many feet, having many feet”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension
- platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
- stage (for actors)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “pulpitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pulpitum 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)
- pulpitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pulpitum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pulpitum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ Szemerényi, Considine, Hooker, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.
Noun
pulpitum n (uncountable)
- pulpitum
Declension