frixorium

• frixoria, frixuria, frexoria f

From frīgō (“fry”). Attested, in the feminine form ⟨frixuriae⟩, in Venantius Fortunatus.[1]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /frikˈso.ri.um/, [frikˈsɔːrium]

frixōrium n (genitive frixōriī or frixōrī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. frying-pan, skillet
   • ca. AD 960–70 (manuscript date)[2], unknown, Latin Psalters psalm 101:4:

     et ossa mea sicut in frixorio confrixa sunt

     my bones are roasted, as if in a skillet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• Dalmatian:
  • forsaura
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: frissoia
  • Italian: fressura (Marche)
  • Neapolitan:

    Abruzzo: ferzora, fressora

    Amaseno, Sora: fressora

    Apulia: fresole

  • Sicilian: frissura (Calabria)
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: fersorie, fressorie, farsoria, frissoria
  • Lombard: forseira
  • Old Venetian: farsora, farsura
    • Venetian: farsora, fersora
    • →? Istriot: farsura
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: fressouoir, frixoir, fresseul

• “frixorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• frixorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• frixorium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 961: “la padella (ill.)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frīxoria”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 814

• frixorium 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “frixorium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 455