pectorale

Latin

Etymology

From pectorālis (“of or pertaining to the breast”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pek.toˈraː.le/, [pɛkt̪ɔˈräːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pek.toˈra.le/, [pekt̪oˈräːle]

Noun

pectorāle n (genitive pectorālis); third declension

1. anything worn around the chest
   1. breastplate, a form of armour of a human or mount

      Synonym: lōrica

   2. breastgirth, breastplate, breaststrap, a contrivance on a mount preventing the saddle from sliding back

      Synonym: antilēna

   3. breastgirth, breastband, breaststrap, supporting the mammaries of a human female

      Synonyms: amictōrium, mamillāre, fascia pectorālis, strophium

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pectorāle	pectorālia
Genitive	pectorālis	pectorālium
Dative	pectorālī	pectorālibus
Accusative	pectorāle	pectorālia
Ablative	pectorālī	pectorālibus
Vocative	pectorāle	pectorālia

Related terms

• pectorālis
• pectus

Descendants

• → English: pectoral
• French: peitral
• Spanish: peitral
• Polish: pektorał

References

• pectorale 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)
• “pectorale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers