carchesium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρχήσιον (karkhḗsion).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /karˈkʰeː.si.um/, [kärˈkʰeːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /karˈke.si.um/, [kärˈkɛːs̬ium]

Noun

carchēsium n (genitive carchēsiī or carchēsī); second declension

  1. A Greek drinking cup or beaker
  2. The masthead, scuttle
  3. The upright beam of a crane

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carchēsium carchēsia
Genitive carchēsiī
carchēsī1		 carchēsiōrum
Dative carchēsiō carchēsiīs
Accusative carchēsium carchēsia
Ablative carchēsiō carchēsiīs
Vocative carchēsium carchēsia

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

Descendants
  • Italian: calcese

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