scrinium

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ni.um/, [ˈs̠kriːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ni.um/, [ˈskriːnium]

Noun

scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension

1. case or chest for books or papers
2. portfolio, briefcase
3. desk (for writing)
4. (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) chancery, archive, notarial department
5. (Medieval Latin) reliquary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	scrīnium	scrīnia
genitive	scrīniī scrīnī1	scrīniōrum
dative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
accusative	scrīnium	scrīnia
ablative	scrīniō	scrīniīs
vocative	scrīnium	scrīnia

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

Derived terms

• scrīniārius
• scrīniolum

Descendants

• Old French: escrin
  • French: écrin
  • → English: scrine
• Italian: scrigno
• → Proto-Brythonic: *skrin
  • → Breton: skrin
  • → Welsh: ysgrin
• → Catalan: escriny
• → Proto-West Germanic: *skrīnī, *skrīn (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: scrín
• → Polish: skrzynia
• → Portuguese: escrínio
• → Sicilian: scrignu
• → Spanish: escriño

References

• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scrinium 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)
• scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “scrinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 947