pilentum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilentum (plural pilentums or pilenta)
- (Ancient Rome) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Gaulish.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /piːˈlen.tum/, [piːˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈlen.tum/, [piˈlɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
[edit]pīlentum n (genitive pīlentī); second declension
- a chariot used by Roman ladies
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
| genitive | pīlentī | pīlentōrum |
| dative | pīlentō | pīlentīs |
| accusative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
| ablative | pīlentō | pīlentīs |
| vocative | pīlentum | pīlenta |
References
[edit]- “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.
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