cribrum

From Proto-Italic *kreiðrom, from Proto-Indo-European *kréydʰrom, from the root *krey- (“to sieve, pick out, separate”) +‎ *-dʰrom (suffix denoting an inanimate agent/instrument); equivalent to cernō (“to sift, separate”) +‎ -brum. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ, Old Welsh cruitr (> Welsh crwydr), Old Irish críathar.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkriː.brũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkriː.brum]

crībrum n (genitive crībrī); second declension

1. sieve, riddle, winnow

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• crībellō
• crībellum
• crībrō

• cernō

• “cribrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cribrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cribrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cribrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers