Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2015/October 8

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
adytum n, noun
  1. (literally) shrine, Holy of Holies (the innermost or most secret part of a temple or other sacred place; the sanctuary, which none but priests could enter, and from which oracles were delivered)
  2. (more generally) a secret place or chamber
  3. (transferred sense, of the dead) a grave, tomb, or mausoleum
  4. (figuratively) the inmost recesses
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