Latin

Alternative forms

• prandeum

Noun

brandeum n ‎(genitive brandeī); second declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Holy covering, shroud, linen or silk covering for the body

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Romanian: brânză, brâu, pânză (with influence from pannus)

References

• BRANDEUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• “brándeum” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995) Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 31
• “brandeum” in Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)