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Latin
Etymology
Borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰβῠ́ρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “maze”).
Pronunciation
Noun
labyrinthus m (genitive labyrinthī); second declension
- a building with many winding passages, a labyrinth; especially that built by Daedalus, near Knossos, Crete
- (figurative) a maze, tangle, bewildering intricacy
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “labyrinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “labyrinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- labyrinthus 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)
- labyrinthus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “labyrinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “labyrinthus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin