different between criminals vs barathrum

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?n?lz/
• Hyphenation: crim?i?nals

Noun

criminals

1. plural of criminal

Catalan

Adjective

criminals

1. plural of criminal

Noun

criminals

1. plural of criminal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba?????m/

Noun

barathrum (plural barathrums)

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (bárathron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ba.ra.t?rum/, [?bä?ät??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ba.ra.trum/, [?b????t??um]

Noun

barathrum n (genitive barathr?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

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

References

• 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