pluteus

English

Etymology

From Latin pluteus.

Noun

pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)

1. (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
2. (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

Anagrams

• pustule

Latin

Alternative forms

• pluteum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (“cross-beam”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plauts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (“flotsam”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.te.us/, [ˈpɫ̪ʊt̪eʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.te.us/, [ˈpluːt̪eus]

Noun

pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension

1. A form of protective shed or breastwork.
2. A moveable screen.
3. A bookcase, bookshelf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pluteus	pluteī
Genitive	pluteī	pluteōrum
Dative	pluteō	pluteīs
Accusative	pluteum	pluteōs
Ablative	pluteō	pluteīs
Vocative	plutee	pluteī

References

• “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pluteus 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)
• pluteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pluteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pluteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin