zotheca

zotheca

1. A small living room, as distinguished from a room for sleeping: an alcove.

From Ancient Greek ζωθήκη (zōthḗkē)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /zoːˈtʰeː.ka/

zōthēca f (genitive zōthēcae); first declension

1. a private room, chamber, or closet
2. a recess, niche

First declension.

• zōthēcula

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