tentipellium

Latin

Etymology

From tendō (“I stretch, stretch out, distend, extend”) +‎ pellis (“skin, hide, felt, pelt”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ten.tiˈpel.li.um/, [t̪ɛn̪t̪ɪˈpɛlːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ten.tiˈpel.li.um/, [t̪en̪t̪iˈpɛlːium]

Noun

tentipellium n (genitive tentipelliī or tentipellī); second declension

1. That which stretches out a skin or hide: a hidestretcher, leather-stretcher.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tentipellium	tentipellia
genitive	tentipelliī tentipellī1	tentipelliōrum
dative	tentipelliō	tentipelliīs
accusative	tentipellium	tentipellia
ablative	tentipelliō	tentipelliīs
vocative	tentipellium	tentipellia

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

Related terms

Related terms

• tendicula
• tendō
• tendor
• tensiō
• tensūra
• tensus
• tentīgō
• tenta
• tentō
• tentōrium

References

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