trapetus

Latin

Alternative forms

trapētum n pl
trapētes m pl (from *τράπητες (*trápētes))

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραπητόν (trapētón), derived from τραπέω (trapéō, “to squeeze”), related to τρέπω (trépō, “to turn (a press)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [traˈpeː.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪raˈpɛː.t̪us]

Noun

trapētus m (genitive trapētī); second declension

olive oil mill

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trapētus	trapētī
genitive	trapētī	trapētōrum
dative	trapētō	trapētīs
accusative	trapētum	trapētōs
ablative	trapētō	trapētīs
vocative	trapēte	trapētī

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: trappeto
- Neapolitan: trappito
Mozarabic: *trapíč
- → Catalan: trapeig, trapitx, ⇒ trepitjar
- → Spanish: trapiche
  - → English: trapiche
  - → Portuguese: trapiche

References

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