candelabrum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin candēlābrum (“candlestick”), from candēla.[1] Doublet of chandelier. Displaced native Old English candeltrēow (literally “candle tree”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kændɪˈlɑːbɹəm/[1]
- IPA(key): /kændɪˈleɪbɹəm/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkæn.dl̩ˈɑ.bɹəm/, /ˌkæn.dl̩ˈæ.bɹəm/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: can‧de‧la‧brum
Noun
[edit]candelabrum (plural candelabra or (very rare) candelabrums)
- A candle holder.
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 17:
- The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble, where the glass […] Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra / Reflecting light upon the table as / The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it, […]
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 6, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 58:
- Cyby followed us holding up his candelabrum—I suppose more for his benefit than mine, but it permitted me to see well enough to keep from colliding with the dark oak shelves we passed.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]candle holder
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “candelabrum”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From candēla (“candle”) + -brum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kan.deːˈlaː.brum/, [kän̪d̪eːˈɫ̪äːbrʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kan.deˈla.brum/, [kän̪d̪eˈläːbrum]
Noun
[edit]candēlābrum n (genitive candēlābrī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Genitive | candēlābrī | candēlābrōrum |
Dative | candēlābrō | candēlābrīs |
Accusative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Ablative | candēlābrō | candēlābrīs |
Vocative | candēlābrum | candēlābra |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aragonese: candeler
- Catalan: canelobre
- Dutch: kandelaar
- English: candelabrum, chandelier
- French: candélabre, chandelier
- German: Kandelaber
- Hungarian: kandeláber
- Ido: kandelabro
- Italian: candelabro
- Polish: kandelabr
- Portuguese: candelabro
- Russian: канделя́бр (kandeljábr)
- Sardinian:
- Sardinian: candelobre
- Sassarese: canderabru
- Spanish: candelabro
Further reading
[edit]- “candelabrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “candelabrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- candelabrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “candelabrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “candelabrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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