loculus

Latin loculus

loculus (plural loculi)

1. A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
2. In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
3. (zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
4. (botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

• locular

• loculus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• loculus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• colulus, ullucos

Diminutive form of Latin locus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ku.lus/, [ˈɫɔ.kʊ.ɫʊs]

loculus m (genitive loculī); second declension

1. A small place
2. coffin
3. manger, stall
4. purse, pocket

Second declension.

• loculāmentum
• loculātus

• locellus

• Portuguese: lóculo

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