linteum

Latin

Etymology

From linteus.

Pronunciation

Noun

linteum n (genitive linteī); second declension

  1. linen cloth
  2. (by extension) bedsheet
  3. sail
  4. awning

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative linteum lintea
genitive linteī linteōrum
dative linteō linteīs
accusative linteum lintea
ablative linteō linteīs
vocative linteum lintea

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: lenzo (archaic)
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: llenzu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: lenço
      • Galician: lenzo
      • Portuguese: lenço (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: lienço
  • Borrowings:
    • → Ancient Greek: λέντιον (léntion)

From the feminine/plural lintea:

Adjective

linteum

  1. inflection of linteus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

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