Latin

Noun

palimpsēstus m ‎(genitive palimpsēstī); second declension

1. A palimpsest; a manuscript scraped clean for reuse.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: palimpsest
• French: palimpseste m
• Italian: palinsesto m
• Romanian: palimpsest n
• Russian: палимпсест ‎(palimpsest)
• Spanish: palimpsesto m

References

• palimpsestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palimpsestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PALIMPSESTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “palimpsestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.