delubrum

Latin dēlūbrum

delubrum (plural delubra)

1. A temple or shrine.
2. A sanctuary.
3. A church with a font.

From dēlu(ō) (“to cleanse”) +‎ -brum, from de- + lavō (“I wash”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈluː.brum/, [deːˈɫuː.brũ]

dēlūbrum n (genitive dēlūbrī); second declension

1. a temple, shrine
2. accusative singular of dēlūbrum
3. vocative singular of dēlūbrum

Second declension.

• Italian: delubro
• Portuguese: delubro

• delubrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• delubrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delubrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• delubrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• delubrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delubrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin