flabellum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin flabellum (“fan”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fləˈbɛləm/ Rhymes: -ɛləm === Noun === flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella) A large fan used for religious ceremonies. (botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure. ==== Related terms ==== flabellate ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From flābrum (“breeze”) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɫaːˈbɛl.lũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [flaˈbɛl.lum] === Noun === flābellum n (genitive flābellī); second declension A small (hand-held) fan, especially for keeping off flies. (Ecclesiastical Latin) flabellum. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== flābellō ==== Descendants ==== → English: flabellum, flabel → Italian: flabello → Portuguese: flabelo === References === “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “flabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "flabellum", 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) “flabellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “flabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “flabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin