pulpitum

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English

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.

Noun

pulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)

  1. 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. 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

  1. platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
  2. stage (for actors)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulpitum pulpita
Genitive pulpitī pulpitōrum
Dative pulpitō pulpitīs
Accusative pulpitum pulpita
Ablative pulpitō pulpitīs
Vocative pulpitum pulpita

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
  1. ^ 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)

  1. pulpitum

Declension

declension of pulpitum (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pulpitum pulpitumul
genitive/dative (unui) pulpitum pulpitumului
vocative pulpitumule
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