adytum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adytum, from Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton, “innermost sanctuary; shrine”), inflected form of ἄδυτος (ádutos, “not to be entered”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈadɪtəm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈadətəm/, [-ɾəm] Hyphenation: adyt‧um === Noun === adytum (plural adytums or adyta) (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. Synonyms: (archaic, poetic) adyt, adyton (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. ==== Coordinate terms ==== Holy of Holies inner sanctum sacrarium sanctum sanctorum ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === adyton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.dy.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.di.tum] === Etymology 1 === From the Ancient Greek ἄδῠτον (ádŭton, “innermost sanctuary”, “shrine”), a substantivisation of the neuter forms of the adjective ἄδῠτος (ádŭtos, “not to be entered”). ==== Alternative forms ==== adytus (masculine fourth-declension collateral form) ==== Noun ==== adytum n (genitive adytī); second declension (literally) inner shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies: (the innermost or most secret part of a temple or other sacred place; the sanctuary, which none but priests could enter, and from which oracles were delivered) (more generally) a secret place or chamber (transferred sense, of the dead) a grave, tomb, or mausoleum (figuratively) the inmost recesses ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Synonyms ===== sānctum sānctōrum ===== Descendants ===== English: adytum Portuguese: ádito ==== References ==== “ădytum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adytum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "adytum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ădy̆tum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 69/3. “adytum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “adytum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin === Etymology 2 === See adytus. ==== Noun ==== adytum m accusative singular of adytus