lectisternium

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

lectisternium (plural lectisterniums or lectisternia)

1. (historical) An ancient "feast of the gods", at which images of the gods were set on couches around a feast table.

Latin

Etymology

From lectus (“couch”) +‎ sternō (“to spread out”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lek.tisˈter.ni.um/, [ɫ̪ɛkt̪ɪs̠ˈt̪ɛrniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lek.tisˈter.ni.um/, [lekt̪isˈt̪ɛrnium]

Noun

lectisternium n (genitive lectisterniī or lectisternī); second declension

1. lectisternium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lectisternium	lectisternia
genitive	lectisterniī lectisternī1	lectisterniōrum
dative	lectisterniō	lectisterniīs
accusative	lectisternium	lectisternia
ablative	lectisterniō	lectisterniīs
vocative	lectisternium	lectisternia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lectisternium 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)
• lectisternium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold a lectisternium: lectisternium facere, habere (Liv. 22. 1. 18)
    
• “lectisternium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lectisternium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin