scrinium

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, sometimes seen as a ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ni.um/, [ˈs̠kriːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ni.um/, [ˈskriːnium]

Noun

scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension

1. case or chest for books or papers
2. portfolio, briefcase
3. desk (for writing)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Genitive	scrīniī scrīnī1	scrīniōrum
Dative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Accusative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Ablative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Vocative	scrīnium	scrīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• scrīniārius
• scrīniolum

Descendants

• → Catalan: escriny
• → Spanish: escriño
• → Old Dutch: *skrīni
  • Middle Dutch: schrine
    • Dutch: schrijn
• → Old English: scrīn
  • Middle English: shryne
    • English: shrine
• → Old French: escrin
  • French: écrin
  • → English: scrine
• → Old High German: scrīn, scrīni
  • Middle High German: schrīn
    • German: Schrein
  • → Bulgarian: скрин (skrin)
  • → Czech: skříň
  • → Polish: skrzynia
  • → Serbo-Croatian: škrȉnja, skrȉnja
  • → Slovak: skriňa
  • → Slovene: skrínja
• → Old Irish: scrín
• → Italian: scrigno
• → Old Norse: skrín
  • Danish: skrin
  • Icelandic: skríni
  • Swedish: skrin
• → Polish: skrzynia
• → Portuguese: escrínio
• → Welsh: ysgrin

References

• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scrinium 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)
• scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers