dapifer

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dapifer, from Latin daps (“feast”) + -fer (“bearer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæpɪfə/

Noun

dapifer (plural dapifers) (historical)

1. The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
2. The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
3. The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.

Latin

Etymology

daps +‎ -fer

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.pi.fer/, [ˈd̪äːpifer]

Noun

dapifer m (genitive dapiferī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) steward, seneschal

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	dapifer	dapiferī
genitive	dapiferī	dapiferōrum
dative	dapiferō	dapiferīs
accusative	dapiferum	dapiferōs
ablative	dapiferō	dapiferīs
vocative	dapifer	dapiferī

Derived terms

• dapiferālis
• dapiferātus
• dapiferia

Descendants

• English: dapifer
• Italian: dapifero

References

• dapifer 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) “dapifer”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301