feretrum

Learned borrowing from Latin feretrum, from Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron). Doublet of feretory.

feretrum (plural feretra)

1. (historical) A kind of medieval reliquary or shrine containing the sacred effigies and relics of a saint.

• pheretrum

From Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), crossed with or analysed as fero +‎ -trum. Doublet of ferculum, which features another variant of the same suffix.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.rɛ.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.re.trum]

feretrum n (genitive feretrī); second declension

1. funereal litter

   Synonyms: lectīca funebris f, lectīcula f, lectus funebris m, capulum n

2. bier
3. (New Latin) hearse

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “féretrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 462

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• “feretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "feretrum", 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)
• “feretrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “feretrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “feretrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Patrick M. Owens, “Silva (old)”, in Neo-Latin Lexicon‎^[1], Patrick M. Owens