scrinium

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown, sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ni.um] === Noun === scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension case or chest for books or papers portfolio, briefcase desk (for writing) (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) chancery, archive, notarial department (Medieval Latin) reliquary ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== scrīniārius scrīniolum ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "scrinium", 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) “scrinium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “scrinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 947