atanuvium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === athanuvium === Etymology === Perhaps from an Etruscan source; compare attanus, atalla. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.taˈnʊ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.taˈnuː.vi.um] === Noun === atanuvium n (genitive atanuviī or atanuvī); second declension A kind of earthen bowl used by the Roman priests in offering sacrifices. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “atanuvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “atanuvium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.