flabellum

English

WOTD – 13 April 2007

Etymology

From Latin flabellum (“fan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fləˈbɛləm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛləm

Noun

flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)

1. A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
2. (botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.

Related terms

• flabellate

Translations

large fan

• Finnish: viuhka (fi), flabellum
• Italian: flabello (it) m
• Polish: wachlarz (pl) m

fan-shaped structure

• Finnish: viuhka (fi)
• Italian: flabello (it) m
• Polish: wachlarz (pl) m

Latin

Etymology

From flābrum (“breeze”) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /flaːˈbel.lum/, [fɫ̪äːˈbɛlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flaˈbel.lum/, [fläˈbɛlːum]

Noun

flābellum n (genitive flābellī); second declension

1. A small (hand-held) fan, especially for keeping off flies.
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) flabellum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	flābellum	flābella
genitive	flābellī	flābellōrum
dative	flābellō	flābellīs
accusative	flābellum	flābella
ablative	flābellō	flābellīs
vocative	flābellum	flābella

Derived terms

• flābellō

Descendants

• → English: flabellum, flabel
• → Portuguese: flabelo

References

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