scrinium

American  

[skrin-ee-uhm] / ˈskrɪn i əm /

noun

scrinia plural

1. a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• scrinia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of scrinium

< Latin scrīnium; see shrine

Example Sentences

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scrinium scrinia

A reliquary preserved at Clogher in 1300 was known as the membra, which, according to one explanation, was the equivalent of memoriale scrinium, memorial shrine.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa, or capsula, in which the manuscripts were placed vertically, the titles at the top.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

M. 74 In the original, scrinium, box for holding MSS.

From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Melmoth, William

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 Milman, Henry Hart

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 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall