pulpitum

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.

Noun[edit]

pulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)

  1. A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Of obscure origin, but said to be an Ancient Greek borrowing.[1] According to the American Heritage Dictionary, possibly a back-formation from plural pulpita, perhaps (via Etruscan *pulputa or *pulpta), from Ancient Greek πολύποδα (polúpoda), neuter plural of πολύπους (polúpous, trodden by many feet, having many feet).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension

  1. platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
  2. stage (for actors)

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulpitum pulpita
Genitive pulpitī pulpitōrum
Dative pulpitō pulpitīs
Accusative pulpitum pulpita
Ablative pulpitō pulpitīs
Vocative pulpitum pulpita

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References[edit]

  • pulpitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pulpitum 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)
  • pulpitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • pulpitum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pulpitum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Szemerényi, Considine, Hooker, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.

Noun[edit]

pulpitum n (uncountable)

  1. pulpitum

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