siparium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σίπαρος (síparos).

Noun

sīparium n (genitive sīpariī or sīparī); second declension

1. (small) curtain

   post siparium ― behind curtain(s)

2. the curtain of a theatre
3. (figuratively) comedy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sīparium	sīparia
genitive	sīpariī sīparī1	sīpariōrum
dative	sīpariō	sīpariīs
accusative	sīparium	sīparia
ablative	sīpariō	sīpariīs
vocative	sīparium	sīparia

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

Descendants

• Friulian: sipari
• Italian: sipario
• Piedmontese: sipari

References

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