pluteus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pluteus. === Noun === pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei) (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === pustule == Latin == === Alternative forms === pluteum === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (“cross-beam”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plàukts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (“flotsam”)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɫʊ.te.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpluː.te.us] === Noun === pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension A form of protective shed or breastwork. A moveable screen. A bookcase, bookshelf ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== >? Old Galician-Portuguese: choçaFala: chozaGalician: chozaPortuguese: choça→? Ladino: chosa→? Spanish: choza === References === === Further reading === “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "pluteus", 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) “pluteus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pluteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “pluteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin