scrinium
Latin
Etymology
Unknown,[1] sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ni.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ni.um]
Noun
scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension
- case or chest for books or papers
- portfolio, briefcase
- desk (for writing)
- (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) chancery, archive, notarial department
- (Medieval Latin) reliquary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scrīnium | scrīnia |
| genitive | scrīniī scrīnī1 |
scrīniōrum |
| dative | scrīniō | scrīniīs |
| accusative | scrīnium | scrīnia |
| ablative | scrīniō | scrīniīs |
| vocative | scrīnium | scrīnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “scrīnium, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 605
Further reading
- “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "scrinium", 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)
- scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “scrinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 947