pulpit
Middle English
/ˈpulpit/
noun
Definitions
- A pulpit podium for religious oratory
- A podium for non-religious oratory.
- (rare) A seat in a church for royalty.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pulpitum (platform, stage, tribune, pulpit, scaffold).
Origin
Latin
pulpitum
Gloss
platform, stage, tribune, pulpit, scaffold
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pulpit English
- pulpital English
- pulpited English
- pulpiteer English
- pulpiter English
- pulpitical English
- pulpitish English
- pulpitless English
- pulpitry English
- pulpitum Latin
- Pult German
- pulpitus Hungarian
- pulpito Italian
- pupitre French
- púlpito Spanish, Castilian
- πολύποδα Ancient Greek
- pult Norwegian Bokmål
- pulpit Polish
- pult Norwegian Nynorsk
- pulpite Old French
- pulpet Middle High German