pulpitum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pulpit.

pulpitum (plural pulpitums or pulpita)

1. A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.

Of obscure origin, but said to be an Ancient Greek borrowing.[1] According to the American Heritage Dictionary, possibly a back-formation from plural pulpita, perhaps (via Etruscan *pulputa or *pulpta), from Ancient Greek πολύποδα (polúpoda), neuter plural of πολύπους (polúpous, “trodden by many feet, having many feet”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpʊɫ̪pɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.pi.tum/, [ˈpulpit̪um]

pulpitum n (genitive pulpitī); second declension

1. platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
2. stage (for actors)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pulpitō

• Catalan: púlpit
• → English: pulpitum
• → French: pupitre
  • → Spanish: pupitre
    • → Catalan: pupitre
• Friulian: pulpit
• Italian: pulpito
• Lombard: pulpit
• → Middle English: pulpit, pulpet, pollepyt, pullpite, polepitt, pulpitte, pulpytt, pulpette, pulpite
  • English: pulpit
  • Scots: poopit, poupit
• → Middle High German: pulpet
  • German: Pult
    • → Russian: пульт (pulʹt)
      • → Armenian: պուլտ (pult)
      • → Georgian: პულტი (ṗulṭi)
    • → Ukrainian: пу́льт (púlʹt)
  • → Swedish: pulpet
    • → Finnish: pulpetti
• → Norwegian: pult
• Piedmontese: pùlpit
• → Polish: pulpit
• Portuguese: púlpito
• → Romanian: pulpitum
• Spanish: púlpito

• “pulpitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulpitum 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)
• pulpitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pulpitum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pulpitum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pulpitum.

pulpitum n (uncountable)

1. pulpitum