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Latin
Noun
umbilīcus mundī m (genitive umbilīcī mundī); second declension
- the 'navel of the world', an omphalos considered to be the axis mundi
1565, Lucilli Philalthaei, Philosophiae, Medicinaeq. Professoris Publici, ...:
1727, Pieter Burman, Sylloges epistolarum: a viris illustribus scriptarum tomi quinque:Est & vox haec translatitia ad medium cujusvis rei signandum, ut quum vocant Delphos Umbilicum mundi, videor & in Verrinis legere, [...]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.