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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψευδόθυρον (pseudóthuron).
Pronunciation
Noun
pseudothyrum n (genitive pseudothyrī); second declension
- a secret door, back door, private entrance, postern gate
- (figurative) a secret manner
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “pseudothyrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pseudothyrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pseudothyrum 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)
- pseudothyrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pseudothyrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers