reclinatorium

Latin

Etymology

From reclīnō (“to recline, lean back”) +‎ -tōrium.

Noun

reclīnātōrium n (genitive reclīnātōriī or reclīnātōrī); second declension

1. (in the plural) the back of a couch
2. the seat of a chariot
3. a place suitable for sitting

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	reclīnātōrium	reclīnātōria
genitive	reclīnātōriī reclīnātōrī1	reclīnātōriōrum
dative	reclīnātōriō	reclīnātōriīs
accusative	reclīnātōrium	reclīnātōria
ablative	reclīnātōriō	reclīnātōriīs
vocative	reclīnātōrium	reclīnātōria

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

Descendants

• → Catalan: reclinatori

References

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