Meaning of cardo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hinge (of a door or gate), usually a pivot and socket in Roman times.
   declension-3
2. thistle or some similar plant
   Early, Medieval-Latin, declension-3
3. a tenon, mortice, or socket
   broadly, declension-3
4. A street, that ran north–south, in a Roman town or military camp
   declension-3
5. turning point, critical moment or action
   declension-3, figuratively
6. the symbolism of the hinge in ancient Roman religion and myth
   declension-3, figuratively
7. a pole
   declension-3

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Examples

“Prīma diēs tibi, Carnā, datur. dea cardinis haec est: nūmine clausa aperit, claudit aperta suō. The first day [of June] is being given to you, Carna. This is the goddess of the hinge: by her divine power she opens the closed, [and] closes the opened. (Ovid conflates the June festival of the goddess Carna with the mythology of Cardea; see also Janus and Hinge.)”

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