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English
Etymology
Originates 1695–1705 from Latin subsellia (low seat or bench), from sub- (under) + sella (seat).
Noun
subsellium (plural subsellia)
- A projecting ledge on the stalls in a church where persons might lean whilst standing during prayers; misericord.
References
Latin
Etymology
sub- (under) + sella (seat).
Pronunciation
Noun
subsellium n (genitive subselliī or subsellī); second declension
- a low seat or bench
- the bench (of a judge)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “subsellium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subsellium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subsellium 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)
- subsellium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “subsellium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “subsellium”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.