cribrum

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kreiðrom, from Proto-Indo-European *kréydʰrom, from the root *krey- (“to sieve, pick out, separate”) +‎ *-dʰrom (suffix denoting an inanimate agent/instrument); equivalent to cernō (“to sift, separate”) +‎ -brum. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ, Old Welsh cruitr (> Welsh crwydr), Old Irish críathar. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkriː.brũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkriː.brum] === Noun === crībrum n (genitive crībrī); second declension sieve, riddle, winnow ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== crībellō crībellum crībrō ==== Related terms ==== cernō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “cribrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cribrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cribrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cribrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers