feretrum

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron) or fero +‎ -trum. Confer with its pure Latin formation ferculum.

Noun

feretrum n (genitive feretrī); second declension

  1. litter, bier

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feretrum feretra
Genitive feretrī feretrōrum
Dative feretrō feretrīs
Accusative feretrum feretra
Ablative feretrō feretrīs
Vocative feretrum feretra

Descendants

  • Catalan: fèretre
  • Italian: feretro
  • Polish: feretron
  • Portuguese: féretro
  • Spanish: féretro

References

feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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