sessorium
Latin
Etymology
From sessor + -ium, i.e. "something of the sitter", or equivalently, from sedeo (“to sit, be seated”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛsˈsoː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sesˈsɔː.ri.um]
Noun
sessōrium n (genitive sessōriī or sessōrī); second declension
- seat
- stool, chair
- place of residence, a dwelling, a habitation
- (New Latin) living room (a place to sit)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Peter Needham, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, London: Bloomsbury, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, page 5:
- in sessorium iit eo tempore quo nuntius novissimus commentariorum vespertinorum emittebatur.
- [original: he went into the living-room in time to catch the last report on the evening news]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sessōrium | sessōria |
| genitive | sessōriī sessōrī1 |
sessōriōrum |
| dative | sessōriō | sessōriīs |
| accusative | sessōrium | sessōria |
| ablative | sessōriō | sessōriīs |
| vocative | sessōrium | sessōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “sessorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sessorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- sessorium in du Cange, et al., Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, éd. augm., Niort : L. Favre, 1883‑1887.