spelunca

Definitiones

1. cave; cavern; chasm
   declension-1
2. grotto
   declension-1
3. den
   declension-1
4. Equivalent to 'cave': Acronym of citizens against virtually everything; people who oppose the construction of any type of structure.

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,”

But the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], ….

“"Scrīptum est", inquit eīs: "Domus mea domus supplicātiōnis vocābitur: at vōs ex ea fēcistis spēluncam latrōnum"”

"It is written", he said to them: "my house will be called a house of prayer: but you have made a den of thieves from it"

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