libum

== Latin == === Etymology === Disputed. According to De Vaan, from either Proto-Italic *leiβom or *loiβom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leybʰ-o-m or *h₂loybʰ-o-m respectively, from *h₂leybʰ- (“(anointing) grease”). If this theory were accepted, then the term would be cognate with Ancient Greek ἀλείφω (aleíphō, “to anoint”), ἄλειφᾰρ (áleiphăr, “unguent”). The linguist Roman Garnier alternatively suggests that it is deverbal from lībō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.bũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.bum] === Noun === lībum n (genitive lībī); second declension a cake or pancake, made of meal and milk or oil and spread with honey, such as was offered to the gods, especially on a birthday lībum nātāle ― birthday cake ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “libum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “libum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "libum", 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) “libum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “libum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “libum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly