siparium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σίπαρος (síparos).

Noun

sīparium n (genitive sīpariī or sīparī); second declension

  1. (small) curtain
    post siparium ― behind curtain(s)
  2. the curtain of a theatre
  3. (figuratively) comedy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sīparium sīparia
Genitive sīpariī
sīparī1		 sīpariōrum
Dative sīpariō sīpariīs
Accusative sīparium sīparia
Ablative sīpariō sīpariīs
Vocative sīparium sīparia

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

Descendants
  • Friulian: sipari
  • Italian: sipario
  • Piedmontese: sipari

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