ventilabrum

Latin

Etymology

From ventil(ā) (“to winnow”) +‎ -brum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯en.tiˈlaː.brum/, [u̯ɛn̪t̪ɪˈɫ̪äːbrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ven.tiˈla.brum/, [ven̪t̪iˈläːbrum]

Noun

ventilābrum n (genitive ventilābrī); second declension

1. winnowing fork or shovel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ventilābrum	ventilābra
genitive	ventilābrī	ventilābrōrum
dative	ventilābrō	ventilābrīs
accusative	ventilābrum	ventilābra
ablative	ventilābrō	ventilābrīs
vocative	ventilābrum	ventilābra

References

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