ferculum

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ferō (I bear) +‎ -culum (tool). Compare with feretrum, calqued or borrowed from Ancient Greek with cognate elements.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ferculum n (genitive ferculī); second declension

  1. that on which any thing is carried or borne
  2. a frame, a barrow, litter, bier for carrying the spoils, the images of the gods, etc., in public processions
  3. a dish on which food is served, a tray; and hence a dish or mess of food, a course

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ferculum fercula
Genitive ferculī ferculōrum
Dative ferculō ferculīs
Accusative ferculum fercula
Ablative ferculō ferculīs
Vocative ferculum fercula

Descendants

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  • Italian: fercolo

References

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  • ferculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ferculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ferculum 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)
  • ferculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ferculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ferculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin