barathrum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin barathrum, from Ancient Greek βάραθρον (bárathron). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbaɹəθɹəm/ === Noun === barathrum (plural barathrums) A pit, especially one at Athens into which criminals were thrown. The abyss, hell. == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek βάραθρον (bárathron). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈba.ra.tʰrũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbaː.ra.trum] === Noun === barathrum n (genitive barathrī); second declension chasm, pit abyss, the lower world, hell (by humorous extension) maw, belly ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: ballandër Italian: baratro Portuguese: báratro Spanish: báratro === References === “barathrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “barathrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “barathrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.