cretifodina

Latin

Alternative forms

• crēti fodīna

Etymology

From crēta (“clay; chalk”) + fodīna (“pit, mine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kreː.ti.foˈdiː.na/, [kreːt̪ɪfɔˈd̪iːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre.ti.foˈdi.na/, [kret̪ifoˈd̪iːnä]

Noun

crētifodīna f (genitive crētifodīnae); first declension

1. A clay or chalk pit.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crētifodīna	crētifodīnae
genitive	crētifodīnae	crētifodīnārum
dative	crētifodīnae	crētifodīnīs
accusative	crētifodīnam	crētifodīnās
ablative	crētifodīnā	crētifodīnīs
vocative	crētifodīna	crētifodīnae

Related terms

• argentīfodīna
• aurifodīna
• crēta
• fodīna
• harēnifodīna

References

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