scrinium

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Latin

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Etymology

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Unknown, sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to turn, bend), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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scrīnium n (genitive scrīniī or scrīnī); second declension

  1. case or chest for books or papers
  2. portfolio, briefcase
  3. desk (for writing)
  4. (Medieval Latin, transferred sense) chancery, archive, notarial department
  5. (Medieval Latin) reliquary

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scrīnium scrīnia
Genitive scrīniī
scrīnī1
scrīniōrum
Dative scrīniō scrīniīs
Accusative scrīnium scrīnia
Ablative scrīniō scrīniīs
Vocative scrīnium scrīnia

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scrinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scrinium 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)
  • scrinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • scrinium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “scrinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 947