punctorium
Latin
Etymology
From pungō (“prick, puncture”) + -tōrium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [puːŋkˈtoː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [puŋkˈt̪ɔː.ri.um]
Noun
pūnctōrium n (genitive pūnctōriī or pūnctōrī); second declension
- an instrument for pricking or puncturing
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pūnctōrium | pūnctōria |
| genitive | pūnctōriī pūnctōrī1 |
pūnctōriōrum |
| dative | pūnctōriō | pūnctōriīs |
| accusative | pūnctōrium | pūnctōria |
| ablative | pūnctōriō | pūnctōriīs |
| vocative | pūnctōrium | pūnctōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “punctorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- punctorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- "punctorium", 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)