ventilabrum

Latin

Etymology

From ventil(ā) (“to winnow”) + -brum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛn.tɪˈɫaː.brũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ven.tiˈlaː.brum]

Noun

ventilābrum n (genitive ventilābrī); second declension

1. winnowing fork or shovel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ventilābrum	ventilābra
genitive	ventilābrī	ventilābrōrum
dative	ventilābrō	ventilābrīs
accusative	ventilābrum	ventilābra
ablative	ventilābrō	ventilābrīs
vocative	ventilābrum	ventilābra

References

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