Latin

Noun

pēgma n ‎(genitive pēgmatis); third declension

1. A bookcase
2. A scaffold
   • from the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Epistle 88) of Seneca the Younger

     His adnumeres licet machinatores, qui pegmata per se surgentia excogitant...

     To this class you may assign the stage-machinists, who invent scaffolding that goes aloft of its own accord...

3. a fixture made of boards, for use or ornament, belonging to a house

Declension

Third declension neuter.

References

• pegma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pegma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PEGMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pegma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• pegma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pegma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin