scrinium

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ni.um/, [ˈs̠kriːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ni.um/, [ˈskriːnium]

Noun

scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension

1. case or chest for books or papers

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Genitive	scrīniī scrīnī1	scrīniōrum
Dative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Accusative	scrīnium	scrīnia
Ablative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
Vocative	scrīnium	scrīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• scrīniārius
• scrīniolum

Descendants

• Bulgarian: скрин (skrin)
• Catalan: escriny
• Czech: * skříň
• Dutch: schrijn
• Old English: scrīn
  • Middle English: shryne
    • English: shrine
• Old French: escrin, escriene, escreigne
  • Breton: skrin
  • English: scrine
  • French: écrin
  • Hungarian: szekrény
  • Icelandic: skríni
  • Swedish: skrin
• German: Schrein
• Italian: scrigno
• Old Norse skrín
• Polish: skrzynia
• Portuguese: escrínio
• Slovak: skriňa
• Slovene: skrinja
• Serbo-Croatian: škrinja

References

• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scrinium 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)
• scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers