ergastulum

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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

  1. penitentiary, workhouse (or its residents)
    • 1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:
      Thence arose unpleasant points of analogy with the ancient ergastulum, where the slaves of an estate were all crammed together.
  2. slave prison

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative ergastulum ergastula
genitive ergastulī ergastulōrum
dative ergastulō ergastulīs
accusative ergastulum ergastula
ablative ergastulō ergastulīs
vocative ergastulum ergastula

Descendants

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