silicernium

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪ.lɪˈkɛr.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [si.liˈt͡ʃɛr.ni.um]

silicernium n (genitive silicerniī or silicernī); second declension

1. A funeral feast
2. A kind of sausage

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• silicernium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “silicernium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press