patibulum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin patibulum (“crossbeam”). === Noun === patibulum (plural patibulums) The crossbar of a cross used for crucifixion. == Latin == === Etymology === From pate(ō) (“to open; to extend”) +‎ -bulum (forming instruments), literally “a device on which one is extended, stretched”. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paˈtɪ.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paˈtiː.bu.lum] === Noun === patibulum n (genitive patibulī); second declension fork-shaped yoke, pillory, or gibbet (for criminals) 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza: ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: patibulum ⇒ French: patibulaire → Italian: patibolo → Portuguese: patíbulo → Spanish: patíbulo === See also === === References === “patibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “patibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "patibulum", 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) “patibulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “patibulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “patibulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin