loculus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin loculus. === Noun === loculus (plural loculi) A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet. In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn. (zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. (botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary. Synonyms: locule, loculament ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “loculus”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “loculus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === colulus, ullucos == Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive form of Latin locus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫɔ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɔː.ku.lus] === Noun === loculus m (genitive loculī); second declension A small place coffin manger, stall purse, pocket ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== loculāmentum loculātus ==== Related terms ==== locellus ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: lòcul → French: locule → English: loculus, locule → Portuguese: lóculo === References === “loculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "loculus", 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) “loculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “loculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “loculus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin