cenaculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• coenāculum
• caenāculum

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂

Proto-Italic *kertsnā

Old Latin cesna

Latin cēna

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin cēnō

Latin -culum

Latin cēnāculum

From cēnō (“to dine”) + -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [keːˈnaː.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃeˈnaː.ku.lum]

Noun

cēnāculum n (genitive cēnāculī); second declension

1. (originally) a dining room, a cenacle
2. the second storey of a 2-storey building; an attic, a garret (as usually housing the dining-room)
3. a storey or floor of a multi-storey building
   1. (figurative) an upper place (also used of the Christian Heaven)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cēnāculum	cēnācula
genitive	cēnāculī	cēnāculōrum
dative	cēnāculō	cēnāculīs
accusative	cēnāculum	cēnācula
ablative	cēnāculō	cēnāculīs
vocative	cēnāculum	cēnācula

Synonyms

• trīclīnium

Derived terms

• cēnācellum
• cēnāculārius
• cēnāculātus

Descendants

• Aromanian: cinache
• → Old French: cénacle
  • English: cenacle
  • French: cénacle
• → Portuguese: cenáculo (learned)
• → Spanish: cenáculo

References

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