pilentum

English

Etymology

Latin pilentum

Noun

pilentum (plural pilentums or pilenta)

  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels etc. for sacred rites were carried.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pilentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

Noun

pīlentum n (genitive pīlentī); second declension

  1. a chariot used by Roman ladies

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pīlentum pīlenta
Genitive pīlentī pīlentōrum
Dative pīlentō pīlentīs
Accusative pīlentum pīlenta
Ablative pīlentō pīlentīs
Vocative pīlentum pīlenta

References

  • pilentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pilentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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