subsellium

Originates 1695–1705 from Latin subsellia (low seat or bench), from sub- (under) + sella (seat).

subsellium (plural subsellia)

1. A projecting ledge on the stalls in a church where persons might lean whilst standing during prayers; misericord.

• “subsellium” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

sub- (under) + sella (seat).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suˈpsel.li.um/, [sʊˈpsɛl.li.ũː]

subsellium n (genitive subselliī or subsellī); second declension

1. a low seat or bench
2. the bench (of a judge)

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• subsellium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• subsellium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subsellium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• subsellium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• subsellium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “subsellium” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.