scrinium
noun
a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
scrinia
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pluralof scrinium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The correspondence between the prince and his subjects was managed by the four scrinia, or offices of this minister of state.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
The Apostolic court being organized from the first on the model of the Roman imperial court, the early pontiffs would naturally have collected their archives, as the emperors had done, into scrinia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Indeed, Hearne had good occasion to speak well of the treasures of Baker's "scrinia;" as the Appendix to his Thomas de Elmham alone testifies.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
