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).
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’s 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
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