Meaning of adytum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. inner shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies: (the innermost or most secret part of a temple or other sacred place; the sanctuary, which none but priests could enter, and from which oracles were delivered)
   declension-2, literally, neuter
2. accusative singular of adytus
   accusative, form-of, masculine, singular
3. a secret place or chamber
   broadly, declension-2, neuter
4. a grave, tomb, or mausoleum
   declension-2, neuter
5. the inmost recesses
   declension-2, figuratively, neuter

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Examples

““Sīc ait et manibus vittās Vestamque potentem”

[Aeneas recalls his dream the night Troy fell:] “So [Hector] speaks, and [then] from the innermost shrines he brings out in his hands the chaplets and everlasting fire [of] mighty Vesta.”

“ab imīs adytīs”

from the innermost chambers [of a tomb]

“ex adytō tamquam cordis respōnsa dēdere”

to yield answers as if from the inmost recesses of the soul

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