thuribulum

Latin

Alternative forms

• tūribulum

Etymology

From thū(ri) +‎ -bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʰuːˈrɪ.bʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tuˈriː.bu.lum]

Noun

thūribulum n (genitive thūribulī); second declension

1. A censer

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	thūribulum	thūribula
genitive	thūribulī	thūribulōrum
dative	thūribulō	thūribulīs
accusative	thūribulum	thūribula
ablative	thūribulō	thūribulīs
vocative	thūribulum	thūribula

Descendants

• Italian: turibulo
• → English: thurible
• ⇒ Galician: tiraboleiro

References

• “thuribulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "thuribulum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)