phylacterium

• fylactērium, filactērium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φῠλᾰκτήρῐον (phŭlăktḗrĭon, “amulet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰy.ɫakˈteː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fi.lakˈtɛː.ri.um]

phylactērium n (genitive phylactēriī or phylactērī); second declension

1. amulet
2. gladiator's medal
3. (Late Latin, Judaism) phylactery

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “phylacterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phylacterium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.