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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπῆλυγξ (spêlunx).
Pronunciation
Noun
spēlunca f (genitive spēluncae); first declension
- a cave, cavern, chasm
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.60–61:
- Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,
hoc metuēns, .- But the all-powerful Father had hidden in dark caverns, fearing this , .
- a grotto
- a den
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “spelunca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spelunca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spelunca 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)
- spelunca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “spelunca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly