patibulum

Latin patibulum (“crossbeam”).

patibulum (plural patibulums)

1. The crossbar of a cross used for crucifixion

From pate(ō) (“I open, I fork”) +‎ -bulum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈti.bu.lum/, [päˈt̪ɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈti.bu.lum/, [päˈt̪iːbulum]

patibulum n (genitive patibulī); second declension

1. fork-shaped yoke, pillory, or gibbet (for criminals)
   • 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza:

     Vexilla regis prodeunt
     Fulget crucis mysterium
     Quo carne carnis conditor,
     Suspensus est patibulo.

     The Banners of the King issue forth,
     the mystery of the Cross does gleam,
     where the Creator of flesh, in the flesh,
     from the cross-bar is hung.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → English: patibulum
• → Italian: patibolo
• → Spanish: patíbulo

• “patibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patibulum 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)
• patibulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “patibulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “patibulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin