adytum Latin · revision 33066

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=grc ἄδυτος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.dy.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.di.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adytum''' ''n'' (genitive adytī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Accius has a fourth-declension masculine ''adytus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἄδυτον|tr=áduton|t=innermost sanctuary]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) the neuter used as a noun of [[m|grc|ἄδυτος|tr=ádutos|t=not to be entered]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler analyses the Greek word as [[m|grc|ἀ-|tr=a-|t=not]] and [[m|grc|δύω|tr=dúō|t=to enter]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Accius, who has a masculine accusative plural ''adytūs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the innermost part of a temple, the sanctuary, which only priests could enter and where oracles were given.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar mentions the hidden and secluded parts of a temple that the Greeks call ''adyta''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has the eternal fire brought out of the inner shrine and sad words brought back from it, and Horace uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In general it is a secret place or chamber: Virgil and Juvenal use it of a tomb, and the Vulgate of inner rooms.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius speaks figuratively of answers given as if from the shrine of the heart.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary gives ''sānctum sānctōrum'' as a synonym, and Stelten "sanctuary, holy of holies, inmost part".^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius, in a masculine form.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the shrine of the heart.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the secluded parts of a temple.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the inner shrine and of a tomb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of inner rooms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The innermost part of a temple, the [[m|en|sanctuary]], [[m|en|shrine]], from which oracles were given.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A secret place or chamber; a [[m|en|tomb]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' The inmost recesses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[penetrale]]

+ * [[sānctum sānctōrum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}