different between seraglio vs gynaeceum

English

Etymology

From Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serr?culum, from a late form of Latin ser?re (“lock up, close”), from sera (“lock, bolt”). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Persian ????? (sar?y, “lodgings, residence”). Compare serai, serail.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s???æljo?/, /s???æ?li?o?/

Noun

seraglio (plural seraglios)

1. The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
2. The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
3. A brothel or place of debauchery.
4. An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Translations

Anagrams

• gasolier, gear oils, girasole

English

Alternative forms

• gynæceum (dated)

Etymology

From Latin gynaec?um, gynaec?um, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (gunaikeîon), from ???? (gun?, “woman”).

Noun

gynaeceum (plural gynaeceums or gynaecea)

1. (historical) The women's quarters in a household, especially of ancient Greece or Rome.
2. (obsolete) Establishment in Rome where female workers made clothing and furniture for royalty.

Synonyms

• (women's quarters in a household): gynaeconitis

Antonyms

• (women's quarters in a household): andronitis

Translations

References

• 1906, William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, page 2667.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (gunaikeîon).

Noun

gynaec?um n (genitive gynaec??); second declension

1. womens quarters in a Greek house

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• gynaeceum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gynaeceum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gynaeceum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)