brandeum

Latin

Alternative forms

• prandeum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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).

	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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10