lectisternium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin lectisternium. === Noun === lectisternium (plural lectisterniums or lectisternia) (historical) An ancient "feast of the gods", at which images of the gods were set on couches around a feast table. == Latin == === Etymology === From lectus (“couch”) + sternō (“to spread out”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɛk.tɪsˈtɛr.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lek.tisˈtɛr.ni.um] === Noun === lectisternium n (genitive lectisterniī or lectisternī); second declension lectisternium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lectisternium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lectisternium", 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) “lectisternium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “lectisternium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “lectisternium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin