barathrum

From Latin barathrum, from Ancient Greek βάραθρον (bárathron).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɹəθɹəm/

barathrum (plural barathrums)

1. A pit, especially one at Athens into which criminals were thrown.
2. The abyss, hell.

From Ancient Greek βάραθρον (bárathron).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈba.ra.tʰrũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.ra.t̪rum]

barathrum n (genitive barathrī); second declension

1. chasm, pit
2. abyss, the lower world, hell
3. (by humorous extension) maw, belly

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Albanian: ballandër
• Italian: baratro
• Portuguese: báratro
• Spanish: báratro

• “barathrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “barathrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• barathrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.