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latibulum

noun /ləˈtɪbjʊləm/

  1. A concealed hiding place, especially of an animal; a burrow, hole, or lair.

    obsolete

    [T]he Roman church had made this latibulum, this hiding place, this refuge from persecution, hermitages and monasteries, to be the most conspicuous, the most glorious, the most eminent, the richest and most abundant places of the world; […]

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin latibulum (“den of animals; hiding place, refuge”), from lat(eō) (“to conceal, hide, lie hidden; to be hidden and in safety”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to be concealed”)) + -bulum (suffix denoting a place or vessel). Doublet of latebra. The plural form latibula is a learned borrowing from Latin latibula.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry latibulum (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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