ergastulum

== Latin == === Etymology === Probably from Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”), from ἐργαστής (ergastḗs, “worker, employee”), from ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “I work, do labor”). === Noun === ergastulum n (genitive ergastulī); second declension penitentiary, workhouse (or its residents) slave prison ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: ergastolo Portuguese: ergástulo Sicilian: ergàstulu Spanish: ergástulo === References === “ergastulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ergastulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ergastulum", 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) “ergastulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ergastulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ergastulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin