tabernaculum

From taberna (“hut, cabin”) +‎ -culum; in Biblical use, translating the Septuagint word σκηνή (skēnḗ, “tent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ta.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [t̪äbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ta.berˈna.ku.lum/, [t̪äberˈnäːkulum]

tabernāculum n (genitive tabernāculī); second declension

1. A tent.

   Synonym: tentōrium

2. A tabernacle.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• taberna
• tabernārius

• English: tabernacle
• French: tabernacle
• Italian: tabernacolo
• Polish: tabernakulum
• Portuguese: tabernáculo
• Spanish: tabernáculo

• “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tabernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabernaculum 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)
• tabernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tabernaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tabernaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin