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English
Etymology
Latin latebra (“hidden recess”)
Noun
latebra (plural latebrae)
- The cavity in the foodyolk of a meroblastic ovum.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin latebra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈtɛ.bra/, /ˈla.te.bra/
- Rhymes: -ɛbra, -atebra
- Hyphenation: la‧tè‧bra, là‧te‧bra
Noun
latebra f (plural latebre)
- (literary) lair, den,
- (literary) trap
- Synonym: nascondiglio
- (embryology) a granular mass of white yolk in the eggs of birds
Further reading
- latebra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From late(ō) + -bra.
Pronunciation
Noun
latebra f (genitive latebrae); first declension
- hiding place, retreat, lair
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.55:
- “impulerat ferrō Argolicās foedāre latebrās”
- “ had impelled to despoil the Argolian hiding-places with the spearpoint .” – Aeneas
- place of refuge from war
- Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, receptāculum, tēctum, dēverticulum
- hidden recess
- subterfuge
- (figurative) a writing in cipher, a riddle
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “latebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “latebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- latebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.