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6-letter words (1 found)

ADYTUM,

5-letter words (1 found)

DATUM,

4-letter words (7 found)

DAUT,DUMA,DUTY,MATY,MAUD,MAUT,YAUD,

3-letter words (19 found)

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2-letter words (13 found)

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Definitions and meaning of adytum

adytum

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)

  2. (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.
    Synonyms: (archaic, poetic) adyt, adyton
  3. (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) IPA(key): /ˈa.dy.tum/, [ˈäd̪ʏt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.di.tum/, [ˈäːd̪it̪um]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ἄδῠτον (áduton, “innermost sanctuary”, “shrine”), a substantivisation of the neuter forms of the adjective ἄδῠτος (ádutos, “not to be entered”).

Alternative forms

  • adytus (masculine fourth-declension collateral form)

Noun

adytum n (genitive adytī); second declension

  1. (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)
  2. (more generally) a secret place or chamber
  3. (transferred sense, of the dead) a grave, tomb, or mausoleum
  4. (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’s 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

  1. accusative singular of adytus

Source: wiktionary.org