lectisternium

Latin

lectisternium (plural lectisterniums or lectisternia)

1. (historical) An ancient "feast of the gods", at which images of the gods were set on couches around a feast table.

From lectus "couch" + sternō "spread out"

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lek.tisˈter.ni.um/, [ɫɛk.tɪsˈtɛr.ni.ũ]

lectisternium n (genitive lectisterniī); second declension

1. lectisternium

• lectisternium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lectisternium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lectisternium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lectisternium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold a lectisternium: lectisternium facere, habere (Liv. 22. 1. 18)
    
• lectisternium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lectisternium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin