latebra

English

Etymology

Latin latebra (“hidden recess”)

Noun

latebra (plural latebrae)

1. The cavity in the foodyolk of a meroblastic ovum.

Anagrams

• Alberta, arbalet, ratable, trabeal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin latebra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈtɛ.bra/, /ˈla.te.bra/
• Rhymes: -ɛbra, -atebra
• Hyphenation: la‧tè‧bra, là‧te‧bra

Noun

latebra f (plural latebre)

1. (literary) lair, den,
2. (literary) trap

   Synonym: nascondiglio

3. (embryology) a granular mass of white yolk in the eggs of birds

Further reading

• latebra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Alberta, albatre, blatera

Latin

Etymology

From late(ō) +‎ -bra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.te.bra/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.te.bra/, [ˈläːt̪ebrä]

Noun

latebra f (genitive latebrae); first declension

1. hiding place, retreat, lair
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.55:

     “impulerat ferrō Argolicās foedāre latebrās”

     “[If Laocoön] had impelled [us] to despoil the Argolian hiding-places with the spearpoint [...].” – Aeneas

2. place of refuge from war

   Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, receptāculum, tēctum, dēverticulum

3. hidden recess
4. subterfuge
5. (figurative) a writing in cipher, a riddle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	latebra	latebrae
Genitive	latebrae	latebrārum
Dative	latebrae	latebrīs
Accusative	latebram	latebrās
Ablative	latebrā	latebrīs
Vocative	latebra	latebrae

References

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