antependium

From Latin ante (“before”) + pendere (“to hang”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntɪˈpɛndi.əm/

antependium (plural antependiums or antependia)

1. (ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

   Synonym: forecloth

• “antependium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin antependium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑn.təˈpɛn.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: an‧te‧pen‧di‧um

antependium n (plural antependia)

1. (Christianity) antependium, frontal; the drapery hangings before an altar or lectern in a church

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin antependium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑntependium/, [ˈɑ̝n̪t̪e̞ˌpe̞ndium]
• Rhymes: -endium
• Syllabification^(key): an‧te‧pen‧di‧um
• Hyphenation^(key): an‧te‧pen‧di‧um

antependium (rare)

1. synonym of alttarivaate (“antependium”)

From ante (“before”) +‎ pendeō (“hang”) +‎ -ium.

antependium n (genitive antependiī or antependī); second declension

1. antependium, altar frontal

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• pallium altāris

• antependulus

• → Catalan: antependi
• → English: antependium
• → Portuguese: antipêndio

• "antependium", 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)

antependium n (definite singular antependiet, indefinite plural antependier, definite plural antependia or antependiene)

1. (ecclesiastical) antependium

antependium n (definite singular antependiet, indefinite plural antependium, definite plural antependia)

1. (ecclesiastical) antependium

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin antependium.

• IPA^(key): /an.tɛˈpɛn.djum/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndjum
• Syllabification: an‧te‧pen‧dium

antependium n

1. (architecture, Christianity) antependium, altar cloth, forecloth, frontal, pulpit fall (decorative cloth that is used to cover the top, front, and sides of an altar)

   Synonyms: antepedium, frontale

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