brandeum

Latin

Alternative forms

• prandeum

Etymology

Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *brādon, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô. Compare English brawn.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbran.de.um/, [ˈbrän̪d̪eʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbran.de.um/, [ˈbrän̪d̪eum]

Noun

brandeum n (genitive brandeī); second declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Holy covering, shroud, linen or silk covering for the body

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	brandeum	brandea
Genitive	brandeī	brandeōrum
Dative	brandeō	brandeīs
Accusative	brandeum	brandea
Ablative	brandeō	brandeīs
Vocative	brandeum	brandea

Descendants

• Italian: brandello and maybe also Italian: brano
• Romanian: brânză (uncertain, possibly from a feminine derivative), Romanian: brâu, Romanian: pânză (with influence from pannus)

References

• brandeum 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)
• “brándeum” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 31
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “brandeum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
• “brahón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014