basterna
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈstɛr.na/
- Rhymes: -ɛrna
- Hyphenation: ba‧stèr‧na
Latin
Etymology
Probably from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /basˈter.na/, [bäs̠ˈt̪ɛrnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /basˈter.na/, [bäsˈt̪ɛrnä]
Noun
basterna f (genitive basternae); first declension
- A kind of litter (platform designed to carry a person)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | basterna | basternae |
Genitive | basternae | basternārum |
Dative | basternae | basternīs |
Accusative | basternam | basternās |
Ablative | basternā | basternīs |
Vocative | basterna | basternae |
Derived terms
- basternārius
Descendants
- Ancient Greek: βαστέρνιον (bastérnion)
- French: basterne
- Italian: basterna
References
- “basterna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- basterna 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)
- “basterna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “basterna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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