prostibulum

== Latin == === Etymology === From prōstō (“to prostitute oneself”) + -bulum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːsˈtɪ.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [prosˈtiː.bu.lum] === Noun === prōstibulum n (genitive prōstibulī); second declension prostitute, whore brothel ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== (brothel): lupānar ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: prostíbul → English: prostibule → Italian: postribolo → Portuguese: prostíbulo → Spanish: prostíbulo === References === “prostibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “prostibulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “prostibulum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 865/2