pastophorium

English

Etymology

From Latin pastophorium.

Noun

pastophorium (plural pastophoria)

1. A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.

Anagrams

• amphitropous

Latin

Noun

pastophorium n (genitive pastophoriī or pastophorī); second declension

1. A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pastophorium	pastophoria
genitive	pastophoriī pastophorī1	pastophoriōrum
dative	pastophoriō	pastophoriīs
accusative	pastophorium	pastophoria
ablative	pastophoriō	pastophoriīs
vocative	pastophorium	pastophoria

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

References

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