pectorale
Latin
Etymology
From pectorālis (“of or pertaining to the breast”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛk.tɔˈraː.ɫɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pek.t̪oˈraː.le]
Noun
pectorāle n (genitive pectorālis); third declension
- anything worn around the chest
- breastplate, a form of armour of a human or mount
- Synonym: lōrica
- breastgirth, breastplate, breaststrap, a contrivance on a mount preventing the saddle from sliding back
- Synonym: antilēna
- breastgirth, breastband, breaststrap, supporting the mammaries of a human female
- breastplate, a form of armour of a human or mount
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pectorāle | pectorālia |
| genitive | pectorālis | pectorālium |
| dative | pectorālī | pectorālibus |
| accusative | pectorāle | pectorālia |
| ablative | pectorālī | pectorālibus |
| vocative | pectorāle | pectorālia |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- "pectorale", 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)
- “pectorale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers