cenaculum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cēnō (to dine) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

Noun

cēnāculum n (genitive cēnāculī); second declension

  1. (originally) a dining room, a cenacle
  2. the second storey of a 2-storey building; an attic, a garret (as usually housing the dining-room)
  3. a storey or floor of a multi-storey building
    1. (figurative) an upper place (also used of the Christian Heaven)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cēnāculum cēnācula
genitive cēnāculī cēnāculōrum
dative cēnāculō cēnāculīs
accusative cēnāculum cēnācula
ablative cēnāculō cēnāculīs
vocative cēnāculum cēnācula

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: cinache
  • Old French: cénacle
  • Portuguese: cenáculo (learned)
  • Spanish: cenáculo

References

  • cenaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cenaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cenaculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cenaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cenaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin