abacus

la-noun

abacus m (genitive abacī); second declension

abacī (genitive)
abacus (nominative singular)
abacī (nominative plural)
abacī (genitive singular)
abacōrum (genitive plural)
abacō (dative singular)
abacīs (dative plural)
abacum (accusative singular)
abacōs (accusative plural)
abacō (ablative singular)
abacīs (ablative plural)
abace (singular vocative)
abacī (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: àbac

→ English: abacus

⇒ Esperanto: abako

→ French: abaque

→ Romanian: abac

→ Galician: ábaco

→ German: Abakus

→ Irish: abacas

→ Italian: abaco

→ Malay: abakus

→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus

→ Portuguese: ábaco

→ Russian: аба́к (abák)

→ Spanish: ábaco

From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).


fulcrum

fulcrum n (genitive fulcrī); second declension

fulcrī (genitive)
fulcrum (nominative singular)
fulcra (nominative plural)
fulcrī (genitive singular)
fulcrōrum (genitive plural)
fulcrō (dative singular)
fulcrīs (dative plural)
fulcrum (accusative singular)
fulcra (accusative plural)
fulcrō (ablative singular)
fulcrīs (ablative plural)
fulcrum (singular vocative)
fulcra (plural vocative)

Catalan: fulcre

English: fulcrum

French: fulcrum

Italian: fulcro

Portuguese: fulcro

Sicilian: furcru

Spanish: fulcro

[ˈfʊɫ̪krʊ̃ˑ]


pes

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

(furniture) the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.


ara

āra (canonical feminine)
ārae (genitive)
āra (nominative singular)
ārae (nominative plural)
ārae (genitive singular)
ārārum (genitive plural)
ārae (dative singular)
ārīs (dative plural)
āram (accusative singular)
ārās (accusative plural)
ārā (ablative singular)
ārīs (ablative plural)
āra (singular vocative)
ārae (plural vocative)

From Old Latin āsa, from Proto-Italic *āzā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-.
Cognate with Sanskrit ā́sa (“ashes”) and English ash.

“… Et quisquam nūmen Iūnōnis adōret

“And would anyone adore the divinity of Juno afterward, or [as a] suppliant [worshiper] lay an offering on [my] altars?”
(Juno is asking herself a rhetorical question.)

praetereā, aut supplex ārīs impōnet honōrem?”


discus

la-noun

discus m (genitive discī); second declension

discī (genitive)
discus (nominative singular)
discī (nominative plural)
discī (genitive singular)
discōrum (genitive plural)
discō (dative singular)
discīs (dative plural)
discum (accusative singular)
discōs (accusative plural)
discō (ablative singular)
discīs (ablative plural)
disce (singular vocative)
discī (plural vocative)

Old French: deis, dois

French: dais

desctree

→ Middle English: deis
English: dais
Scots: deas, deece

Old Italian: desco

Italian: desco

→ Medieval Latin: desca

→ Middle English: deske, desque

English: desk
→ Irish: deasc
→ Welsh: desg

Scots: dask

Old Occitan:

Occitan: des

Old Spanish:

Spanish: desca, desga

→ Albanian: dhisk

→ Albanian: dishkë

Albanian: dishtë

→ Asturian: discu

→ Catalan: disc

→ Danish: diskos

→ Dutch: discus

→ French: disque
→ English: disc
→ Norman: disque
→ Persian: دیسک (disk)
→ Romanian: disc
→ Turkish: disk

→ English: discus

→ Galician: disco

→ Proto-West Germanic: *disk (see there for further descendants)

→ Hebrew: דִּיסְקוּס (dískus)

→ Italian: disco

→ Portuguese: disco

→ Sicilian: discu

→ Spanish: disco
→ Basque: disko

→ Swedish: diskus

→ Middle Welsh: dyskyl

Welsh: dysgl

[ˈd̪ɪs̠kʊs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

(Medieval Latin) table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon


armarium

la-noun

armārium n (genitive armāriī or armārī); second declension

armārium (canonical neuter)
armāriī (genitive)
armārī (genitive)
armārium (nominative singular)
armāria (nominative plural)
armāriī (genitive singular)
armārī (genitive singular)
armāriōrum (genitive plural)
armāriō (dative singular)
armāriīs (dative plural)
armārium (accusative singular)
armāria (accusative plural)
armāriō (ablative singular)
armāriīs (ablative plural)
armārium (singular vocative)
armāria (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance

Romanian: armar

Old Francoprovençal: armero, armoiri

Franco-Provençal: armoiri

Gallo-Italic

Emilian: armèri, armàri (Carpi)

desc

Lombard: armari, armèri, arnuaar, assmari

Piedmontese: armari

Romagnol: armeri

Italo-Dalmatian

Corsican: armadiu, armariu

desctree

Dalmatian: armir, armar
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ормар
Latin script: ormar

Italian: armaio

Istriot: armièr

Sicilian: armariu, armaru

Old Occitan:

Occitan: armari

Old Catalan: armari

Catalan: armari, armer

Rhaeto-Romance

Friulian: armâr

Ladin: armer

desc

Sardinian: almariu, ammariu, armagliu, ammarzu, armariu, armarzu

Venetan: armaro, armèr

Western Iberian

Navarro-Aragonese:

Old Leonese:

Mirandese: almairo

Old Galician-Portuguese: armeyro

Portuguese: armeiro

Old Spanish:

Spanish: armero ?

→ Albanian: almer

Aragonese: almario

Asturian: almariu, armariu

→ English: armarium

→ Galician: armario

→ Koine Greek: ἐρμάριον (ermárion)

→ Hungarian: almárium

→ Italian: armario, armadio

→ Ladino: armario, almario

→ Old French: armaire, aumaire

Middle French:

desctree

French: armoire
Louisiana Creole: larmwa (via le armoire)
Seychellois Creole: larmwar (via le armoire)
→ English: armoire
Sicilian: armuarra, muarra

Norman: aurmoire, ormouère (continental), armouaithe (Jersey)

Walloon: ârmâ

→ Middle English: almerie, almarie, almory, almry, awmerie, almere, almare, armarie
English: ambry, almery, aumbrie, aumbry, ambery
Scots: aumry, amry, amery, aumbry, ambry

→ Portuguese: armário (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: armario

→ Yiddish: אַלמער (almer)

[ärˈmäːriʊ̃ˑ]

a cupboard, closet, chest, especially one in the sacristy of a church where vestments are kept


sedes

la-noun

sēdēs f (genitive sēdis); third declension

sēdēs (canonical feminine)
sēdis (genitive)
sēdēs (nominative singular)
sēdēs (nominative plural)
sēdis (genitive singular)
sēdium (genitive plural)
sēdī (dative singular)
sēdibus (dative plural)
sēdem (accusative singular)
sēdēs (accusative plural)
sēdīs (accusative plural)
sēde (ablative singular)
sēdibus (ablative plural)
sēdēs (singular vocative)
sēdēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: seu

Italian: sede

Old French: sie

→ English: see

Old Galician-Portuguese: see

Galician: sé

Portuguese: sé

→ Polish: sedes

→ Portuguese: sede

→ Spanish: sede

→ Translingual: incertae sedis

→ Welsh: swydd

Ultimately from sedeō (“I sit”) + -ēs, though Latin and Proto-Italic did not productively form nouns from verbs by changing the vowel grade. The word's lengthened grade is similar to Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), and ultimately they likely have a common origin, though divergence in the suffixes leaves the exact ancestral protoform obscure.

Sēdēs huic nostrō nōn importūna sermōnī.

A place not unsuitable for this conversation of ours.

place, residence, settlement, habitation, abode


triclinium

trīclīnium n (genitive trīclīniī or trīclīnī); second declension

trīclīnium (canonical neuter)
trīclīniī (genitive)
trīclīnī (genitive)
trīclīnium (nominative singular)
trīclīnia (nominative plural)
trīclīniī (genitive singular)
trīclīnī (genitive singular)
trīclīniōrum (genitive plural)
trīclīniō (dative singular)
trīclīniīs (dative plural)
trīclīnium (accusative singular)
trīclīnia (accusative plural)
trīclīniō (ablative singular)
trīclīniīs (ablative plural)
trīclīnium (singular vocative)
trīclīnia (plural vocative)

Italian: triclinio

From Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + κλίνω (klínō, “to lean”).

dining room, where three couches are laid out for dining around a small serving table.


lectus

lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension

lectī (genitive)
lectus (nominative singular)
lectī (nominative plural)
lectī (genitive singular)
lectōrum (genitive plural)
lectō (dative singular)
lectīs (dative plural)
lectum (accusative singular)
lectōs (accusative plural)
lectō (ablative singular)
lectīs (ablative plural)
lecte (singular vocative)
lectī (plural vocative)

Asturian: llechu, lletu

Catalan: llit

Dalmatian: ljat

Friulian: jet

Italian: letto

Occitan: lèit

desctree

Old French: lit
Bourguignon: leit
French: lit
Norman: liet

Old Galician-Portuguese: leito
Galician: leito
Portuguese: leito

Romansch: letg

Sardinian: letu

Sicilian: lettu

Spanish: lecho

Venetan: łeto

[ˈɫ̪ɛkt̪ʊs̠]

From Proto-Italic *lektos (“lain upon”), past participle of *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).


sella

la-noun

sella f (genitive sellae); first declension

sellae (genitive)
sella (nominative singular)
sellae (nominative plural)
sellae (genitive singular)
sellārum (genitive plural)
sellae (dative singular)
sellīs (dative plural)
sellam (accusative singular)
sellās (accusative plural)
sellā (ablative singular)
sellīs (ablative plural)
sella (singular vocative)
sellae (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: shalë

Aromanian: shauã

Asturian: siella, siya

Catalan: sella

Dalmatian: siala

English: sella

French: selle

Friulian: siele

Galician: sela

→ Hebrew: אסלה (asla)

Italian: sella

Occitan: sèla

Portuguese: sela

Romanian: șa, șale

Romansch: sella, siala, seala, sela

Sardinian: sedha, sedda

Sicilian: seḍḍa

desctree

Spanish: silla
→ Cebuano: síya
→ Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: siya
→ Galician: silla
→ Hiligaynon: siya
→ Ladino: siya
→ Portuguese: silha
→ Southeastern Tepehuan: xiir
→ Tagalog: silya, siya
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: siya

Venetan: sela, seła

From Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, whence sedeō (“I sit”). The same formation as Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, Proto-Slavic *sedъlo.

(historical) A kind of open or enclosed sedan chair


mensa

la-noun

mēnsa f (genitive mēnsae); first declension

mēnsa (canonical feminine)
mēnsae (genitive)
mēnsa (nominative singular)
mēnsae (nominative plural)
mēnsae (genitive singular)
mēnsārum (genitive plural)
mēnsae (dative singular)
mēnsīs (dative plural)
mēnsam (accusative singular)
mēnsās (accusative plural)
mēnsā (ablative singular)
mēnsīs (ablative plural)
mēnsa (singular vocative)
mēnsae (plural vocative)

Vulgar Latin: mēsa (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ English: mensa (learned)

→ French: mense

→ German: Mensa

→ Spanish: mensa, menso (possibly)

→ Italian: mensa

→ Occitan: mensa

→ Slovene: míza

Probably a nominalization of the feminine form of the perfect passive participle mēnsus (“measured”).


cubile

cubīle n (genitive cubīlis); third declension

cubīle (canonical neuter)
cubīlis (genitive)
cubīle (nominative singular)
cubīlia (nominative plural)
cubīlis (genitive singular)
cubīlium (genitive plural)
cubīlī (dative singular)
cubīlibus (dative plural)
cubīle (accusative singular)
cubīlia (accusative plural)
cubīlī (ablative singular)
cubīlibus (ablative plural)
cubīle (singular vocative)
cubīlia (plural vocative)

Asturian: cobil

Italian: covile

Portuguese: covil

Spanish: cobija, → cubil

→ English: cubile (learned)


cathedra

cathedra f (genitive cathedrae); first declension

cathedrae (genitive)
cathedra (nominative singular)
cathedrae (nominative plural)
cathedrae (genitive singular)
cathedrārum (genitive plural)
cathedrae (dative singular)
cathedrīs (dative plural)
cathedram (accusative singular)
cathedrās (accusative plural)
cathedrā (ablative singular)
cathedrīs (ablative plural)
cathedra (singular vocative)
cathedrae (plural vocative)

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: cadira, carida, cadrea, catrea

Italo-Dalmatian:

Dalmatian: catraida, katraida, catrieda

Italian: cattedra

Sicilian: càttidra, catrida

Venetan: carega

→ Albanian: karrige

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: cjadree, čhadree (alternative orthography)

Ladin: cariega

Romansch: chadreiga

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: cadrega, carega

Ligurian: carêga, cairega, cariega

Lombard: cadrega, cadreja, caréga

→ Piedmontese: cadrega

Piedmontese: careja, carea; carega

→ Franco-Provençal: careya, carea (Valdôtain)

Gallo-Romance:

Old Francoprovençal: cheyri

Franco-Provençal: cheyèri

Old French: chaiere, caiere (Old Northern French)

Lorrain: tchaière

desctree

Middle French: chaire, chaere
French: chaire, chaise
→ Alemannic German: Scheese
→ English: chaise
⇒ English: shay (archaic)
Louisiana Creole: lashèz, lashèj, shèj, shèz

Norman: caire

Jersey Norman: tchaîthe

Guernesey Norman: tchaire

Sark Norman: cheez

Picard: caïère, caïèle (Pas-de-Calais)

→ Middle English: chayer (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: cadira

Occitan:

Auvergnat: chadeira, chadira, chiera

desc

Gascon: cadièra, carièra, cadèira, cadira, carièira

Languedocien: cadièra, cadièira

Limousin: chadiera, chaira, chiera, chadeira, chadira

Provençal: cadièra

Vivaro-Alpine: chiera, cheiera, cheira

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: cadera

Mirandese: cadeira

Old Galician-Portuguese: cadeira

Galician: cadeira

Portuguese: cadeira (see there for further descendants)

Spanish: cadera (see there for further descendants)

Ancient:

→ Proto-Celtic:

desctree

Old Irish: cathaír
Middle Irish: cathaír
Irish: cathaoir
Manx: caair
Scottish Gaelic: cathair

Proto-Brythonic:

Cornish: kador

Middle Breton: cadoer

Breton: kador

Welsh: cadair

Modern:

→ Basque: katedra

→ Catalan: càtedra

→ Czech: katedra

→ Dalmatian: catraida

→ Dutch: katheder

→ English: cathedra

→ French: cathèdre

→ Friulian: càtidre

→ Galician: cátedra

→ Macedonian: катедра (katedra)

→ Occitan: catedra

→ Piedmontese: càtedra

→ Polish: katedra

→ Portuguese: cátedra

→ Romanian: catedră

→ Serbo-Croatian: катедра, katedra

→ Spanish: cátedra

→ Swedish: kateder

→ Translingual: Cathedra

→ Ukrainian: ка́тедра (kátedra)

→ Venetan: càtedra

[ˈkät̪ʰɛd̪rä]

[käˈt̪ʰɛd̪rä]

[käˈt̪ɛd̪rä]

From Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).


scrinium

la-noun

scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension

scrīnium (canonical neuter)
scrīniī (genitive)
scrīnī (genitive)
scrīnium (nominative singular)
scrīnia (nominative plural)
scrīniī (genitive singular)
scrīnī (genitive singular)
scrīniōrum (genitive plural)
scrīniō (dative singular)
scrīniīs (dative plural)
scrīnium (accusative singular)
scrīnia (accusative plural)
scrīniō (ablative singular)
scrīniīs (ablative plural)
scrīnium (singular vocative)
scrīnia (plural vocative)

desctree

Old French: escrin
French: écrin
→ English: scrine

Italian: scrigno

→ Proto-Brythonic: *skrin

→ Breton: skrin

→ Welsh: ysgrin

→ Catalan: escriny

→ Proto-West Germanic: *skrīnī, *skrīn (see there for further descendants)

→ Old Irish: scrín

→ Polish: skrzynia

→ Portuguese: escrínio

→ Sicilian: scrignu

→ Spanish: escriño

Unknown, sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group.

der

(Medieval Latin, transferred sense) chancery, archive, notarial department


solium

la-noun

solium n (genitive soliī or solī); second declension

soliī (genitive)
solī (genitive)
solium (nominative singular)
solia (nominative plural)
soliī (genitive singular)
solī (genitive singular)
soliōrum (genitive plural)
soliō (dative singular)
soliīs (dative plural)
solium (accusative singular)
solia (accusative plural)
soliō (ablative singular)
soliīs (ablative plural)
solium (singular vocative)
solia (plural vocative)

→ Ancient Greek: σόλιον (sólion)

Italian: soglio

→ Portuguese: sólio

Sicilian: sogghiu

→ Spanish: solio

[ˈs̠ɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]

Believed to be an alteration of Old Latin *sodium, from Proto-Italic *sodjom, from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Old Irish suide (“seat”)), from *sed-.

Saepe aliquis soliō, quod tū, Sāturne, tenēbās,

Often some deity, from amid the common class, dared to sit in the throne which you, Saturn, were occupying.


scabellum

scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension

scabellī (genitive)
scabellum (nominative singular)
scabella (nominative plural)
scabellī (genitive singular)
scabellōrum (genitive plural)
scabellō (dative singular)
scabellīs (dative plural)
scabellum (accusative singular)
scabella (accusative plural)
scabellō (ablative singular)
scabellīs (ablative plural)
scabellum (singular vocative)
scabella (plural vocative)

Italian: sgabello

Old French: eschevel

French: écheveau

Old Occitan: escabel

Old Catalan: escabell, escambell

Catalan: escambell

→ Spanish: escabel

Occitan: escabèl

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Portuguese: escabelo

Piedmontese: scabel

Romanian: scăunel (uncertain)

Sicilian: sgabeḍḍu

→ Alemannic German: Gstabëlle

→ English: scabellum

→ French: escabeau
→ Dutch: schabouw

→ Norman: scabelle

→ Proto-West Germanic: *skamil (see there for further descendants)

From scamnum (“stool, ridge”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).


grabattus

la-noun

grabattus m (genitive grabattī); second declension

grabattī (genitive)
grabattus (nominative singular)
grabattī (nominative plural)
grabattī (genitive singular)
grabattōrum (genitive plural)
grabattō (dative singular)
grabattīs (dative plural)
grabattum (accusative singular)
grabattōs (accusative plural)
grabattō (ablative singular)
grabattīs (ablative plural)
grabatte (singular vocative)
grabattī (plural vocative)


supellex

supellē̆x f (genitive supellē̆ctilis); third declension

supellē̆x (canonical feminine)
supellē̆ctilis (genitive)
supellē̆x (nominative singular)
supellē̆ctilēs (nominative plural)
supellē̆ctilis (genitive singular)
supellē̆ctilum (genitive plural)
supellē̆ctilī (dative singular)
supellē̆ctilibus (dative plural)
supellē̆ctilem (accusative singular)
supellē̆ctilēs (accusative plural)
supellē̆ctile (ablative singular)
supellē̆ctilī (ablative singular)
supellē̆ctilibus (ablative plural)
supellē̆x (singular vocative)
supellē̆ctilēs (plural vocative)

[s̠ʊˈpɛlːʲeːks̠]

[s̠ʊˈpɛlːʲɛks̠]

Likely from an unattested *superlegō, from super- (“over, above”) + legō (“to gather, collect”).

affix

furniture, furnishings
utensils, tableware


lasanum

la-noun

lasanum n (genitive lasanī); second declension

lasanī (genitive)
lasanum (nominative singular)
lasana (nominative plural)
lasanī (genitive singular)
lasanōrum (genitive plural)
lasanō (dative singular)
lasanīs (dative plural)
lasanum (accusative singular)
lasana (accusative plural)
lasanō (ablative singular)
lasanīs (ablative plural)
lasanum (singular vocative)
lasana (plural vocative)

⇒ Italian: lasagna

From Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon), possibly a Pre-Greek loan.


lectrum

lēctrum n (genitive lēctrī); second declension

lēctrum (canonical neuter)
lēctrī (genitive)
lēctrum (nominative singular)
lēctra (nominative plural)
lēctrī (genitive singular)
lēctrōrum (genitive plural)
lēctrō (dative singular)
lēctrīs (dative plural)
lēctrum (accusative singular)
lēctra (accusative plural)
lēctrō (ablative singular)
lēctrīs (ablative plural)
lēctrum (singular vocative)
lēctra (plural vocative)

(Medieval Latin) A stand to support a lecturer's notes


foruli

forulī m pl (genitive forulōrum); second declension

forulī (canonical masculine plural)
forulōrum (genitive)
forulī (nominative plural)
forulōrum (genitive plural)
forulīs (dative plural)
forulōs (accusative plural)
forulīs (ablative plural)
forulī (plural vocative)

[...]; condiditque [Sybillinos libros] duobus forulis aureatis sub Palatini Apollinis basi

121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.31:

…; he placed them [the Sybilline books] in two gilded bookcases under the pedestal of Apollo Palatine's statue.