pilentum

English

Etymology

Latin pilentum

Noun

pilentum (plural pilentums or pilenta)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels etc. for sacred rites were carried.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “pilentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• tump line, tumpline

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈlen.tum/, [piːˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈlen.tum/, [piˈlɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

pīlentum n (genitive pīlentī); second declension

1. a chariot used by Roman ladies

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pīlentum	pīlenta
Genitive	pīlentī	pīlentōrum
Dative	pīlentō	pīlentīs
Accusative	pīlentum	pīlenta
Ablative	pīlentō	pīlentīs
Vocative	pīlentum	pīlenta

References

• “pilentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pilentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.