pincerna

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pincerna, of uncertain further origin.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈt͡ʃɛr.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛrna
• Hyphenation: pin‧cèr‧na

pincerna m (plural pincerni)

1. (obsolete, literary) cupbearer

   Synonym: coppiere

• pincerna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unknown, possibly Etruscan. See basterna, lacerna, vīburnum and similar words, suspected to be of such an origin.

pincerna m (genitive pincernae); first declension

1. cupbearer
2. butler

• “pincerna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pincerna 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)
• pincerna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pincerna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers