lavacrum

Latin

Etymology

From lavō +‎ -crum.

Noun

lavācrum n (genitive lavācrī); second declension

1. bath (to have, to take a ⁓)
2. bath (bathroom)
3. toilet (sense 1), one's daily ablutions
4. baptism

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lavācrum	lavācra
genitive	lavācrī	lavācrōrum
dative	lavācrō	lavācrīs
accusative	lavācrum	lavācra
ablative	lavācrō	lavācrīs
vocative	lavācrum	lavācra

Descendants

• Italian: lavacro
• Portuguese: lavacro
• Spanish: lavacro

References

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