tabernaculum

Latin

Etymology

From taberna (“hut, cabin”) +‎ -culum; in Biblical use, translating the Septuagint word σκηνή (skēnḗ, “tent”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ta.bɛrˈnaː.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ta.berˈnaː.ku.lum]

Noun

tabernāculum n (genitive tabernāculī); second declension

1. A tent.

   Synonym: tentōrium

2. A tabernacle.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tabernāculum	tabernācula
genitive	tabernāculī	tabernāculōrum
dative	tabernāculō	tabernāculīs
accusative	tabernāculum	tabernācula
ablative	tabernāculō	tabernāculīs
vocative	tabernāculum	tabernācula

Related terms

• taberna
• tabernārius

Descendants

• → Basque: tabernakulu
• → Catalan: tabernacle
• → Esperanto: tabernaklo
  • → Ido: tabernaklo
• → Finnish: tabernaakkeli
• → Italian: tabernacolo
• → Latvian: tabernākuls
• → Middle Dutch: tabernakel
  • Dutch: tabernakel (see there for further descendants)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tabernakel
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: tabernakel
• → Old French: tabernacle
  • French: tabernacle
  • → Middle English: tabernacle
    • English: tabernacle
      • → Malayalam: ടാബർനാകിൾ (ṭābaṟnākiḷ)
      • → Māori: tāpenakara
  • → Middle High German: tabernakel
    • → Bavarian: Tabernakel
    • → German: Tabernakel
• → Polish: tabernakulum
• → Portuguese: tabernáculo
• → Romanian: tabernacul
• → Serbo-Croatian: tabernakl / табернакл
• → Spanish: tabernáculo
  • → Tagalog: tabernakulo
• → Swedish: tabernakel

References

• “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tabernaculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tabernaculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tabernaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tabernaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin