labarum

From Latin labarum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæbəɹəm/

labarum (plural labara)

1. The Roman military standard adopted by Constantine I. The banner was known for its Christian chi-rho sign - ☧.
   • 1658: Nor shall we urge the labarum, and famous Standard of Constantine, or make further use thereof, than as the first Letters in the Name of our Saviour Christ — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)

labarum m (plural labarums)

1. labarum

• “labarum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).^[1] See also Latin labium, lambō, labrusca, laburnum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.ba.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.ba.rum]

labarum n (genitive labarī); second declension

1. labarum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → Catalan: làbarum
• → English: labarum
• → Ancient Greek: λάβαρον (lábaron)
  • Greek: λάβαρο (lávaro)

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

Borrowed from Latin labarum.

labarum n (uncountable)

1. labarum

• labarum in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN