scrinium.
case or chest for books or papers
Meaning & usage
case or chest for books or papers
portfolio, briefcase
desk (for writing)
chancery, archive, notarial department
reliquary
Where this word comes from
Unknown, sometimes seen as an ur-cognate with the Proto-Slavic container name *krina and derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”), /skr/ being at least a typical onset of the Indo-European language group. Similar words appear in Germanic: Swedish skrinda, skrina, skrinna, skrynna, Norwegian skrunta (“basket (backpack); wagon/sled with rib work”), originally to a sense of “twig work, plank work”, from “cut/cleft wood”, to the same root as Old High German scrintan, scrindan, Middle High German schrinden (“cleaving, cracking”), and Old High German scrunta, German Schrunde (“crack, cleft”).
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