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Latin
Etymology
From senātus + -culum.
Pronunciation
Noun
senāculum n (genitive senāculī); second declension
- (originally) place in the Forum for meetings of the Roman Senate
- a council hall of the Senate
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “senaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "senaculum", 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)
- senaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “senaculum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press