pluteus

English

Etymology

Latin pluteus

Noun

pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)

  1. (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
  2. (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin.[1] Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (“cross-beam”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plauts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (“flotsam”)).[2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension

  1. A form of protective shed or breastwork.
  2. A moveable screen.
  3. A bookcase, bookshelf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pluteus pluteī
Genitive pluteī pluteōrum
Dative pluteō pluteīs
Accusative pluteum pluteōs
Ablative pluteō pluteīs
Vocative plutee pluteī

References
  1. Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “pluteus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 328
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2426, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2426
  3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pluteus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476
  • “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pluteus 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)
  • pluteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pluteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pluteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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