Latin

Noun

pulpitum n ‎(genitive pulpitī); second declension

1. platform, scaffold, or pulpit for public presentations or lectures
2. stage (for actors)

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• pulpitō

Descendants

• English: pulpit
• French: pupitre
• Italian: pulpito
• Norwegian: pult
• Portuguese: púlpito
• Romanian: pulpitum
• Spanish: púlpito

References

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

1. ↑ Szemerényi, Considine, Hooker, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2