feretrum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin feretrum, from Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron). Doublet of feretory. === Pronunciation === === Noun === feretrum (plural feretra) (historical) A kind of medieval reliquary or shrine containing the sacred effigies and relics of a saint. == Latin == === Alternative forms === pheretrum === Etymology === From Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), crossed with or analysed as fero +‎ -trum. Doublet of ferculum, which features another variant of the same suffix. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛ.rɛ.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.re.trum] === Noun === feretrum n (genitive feretrī); second declension funereal litter Synonyms: lectīca funebris f, lectīcula f, lectus funebris m, capulum n bier (New Latin) hearse ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “féretrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 462 === Further reading === “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "feretrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “feretrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “feretrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “feretrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Patrick M. Owens, “Silva (old)”, in Neo-Latin Lexicon‎[1], Patrick M. Owens