feretrum
English
Etymology
Latin feretrum
Noun
feretrum (plural feretra)
- A kind of medieval reliquary or shrine containing the sacred effigies and relics of a saint.
Latin
Alternative forms
- pheretrum
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), crossed with or analysed as fero + -trum. Doublet of ferculum, which features another variant of the same suffix.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.re.trum/, [ˈfɛrɛt̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.re.trum/, [ˈfɛːret̪rum]
Noun
feretrum n (genitive feretrī); second declension
- litter, bier
- (New Latin) hearse
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | feretrum | feretra |
| Genitive | feretrī | feretrōrum |
| Dative | feretrō | feretrīs |
| Accusative | feretrum | feretra |
| Ablative | feretrō | feretrīs |
| Vocative | feretrum | feretra |
Descendants
- Old French: fiertre (“large portable reliquary”)
- Middle French: fiertre
- → Old Irish: fert (“grave”)
- → Middle Breton: fyertr (“bier”)
- → Middle Dutch: fiertre (“reliquary”)
- Old Italian: freto, fredo (Old Pavese)
- → Catalan: fèretre
- → Italian: feretro
- → Polish: feretron
- → Portuguese: féretro
- → Spanish: féretro
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “féretrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 462
Further reading
- “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- feretrum 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)
- feretrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “feretrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “feretrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Patrick M. Owens “Silva (old)”, in Neo-Latin Lexicon, Patrick M. Owens