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Latin
Etymology
From taberna (“hut, cabin”) + -culum; in Biblical use, translating the Septuagint word σκηνή (skēnḗ, “tent”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tabernāculum n (genitive tabernāculī); second declension
- A tent.
- Synonym: tentōrium
- A tabernacle.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tabernaculum 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)
- tabernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tabernaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tabernaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin