lectisternium

English

Etymology

From Latin lectisternium.

Noun

lectisternium (plural lectisterniums or lectisternia)

1. (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

1. lectisternium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lectisternium	lectisternia
genitive	lectisterniī lectisternī1	lectisterniōrum
dative	lectisterniō	lectisterniīs
accusative	lectisternium	lectisternia
ablative	lectisterniō	lectisterniīs
vocative	lectisternium	lectisternia

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold a lectisternium: lectisternium facere, habere (Liv. 22. 1. 18)
    
• “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