elaterium
English
Noun
elaterium (uncountable)
- Alternative form of elaterin
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “elaterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /e.laˈteː.ri.um/, [ɛɫ̪äˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.laˈte.ri.um/, [eläˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
elatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | elatērium | elatēria |
Genitive | elatēriī elatērī1 |
elatēriōrum |
Dative | elatēriō | elatēriīs |
Accusative | elatērium | elatēria |
Ablative | elatēriō | elatēriīs |
Vocative | elatērium | elatēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “elaterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elaterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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