Latin

Noun

scrīnium n ‎(genitive scrīniī); second declension

1. case or chest for books or papers

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Old English: scrīn
  • Middle English: shryne
    • English: shrine
• Italian: scrigno
• Old Norse skrín
• Portuguese: escrínio

References

• scrinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SCRINIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scrinium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• scrinium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers