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Latin
Etymology
From gurges (“whirlpool, abyss”)
Noun
gurgustium n (genitive gurgustiī or gurgustī); second declension
- hut, hovel
- a hole-in-the-wall, dark and obscure place
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “gurgustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gurgustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gurgustium 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)
- gurgustium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- gurgustium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016