prostibulum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *staējō

Proto-Italic *staēō

Latin stō

Latin prōstō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Latin -bulum

Latin prōstibulum

From prōstō (“to prostitute oneself”) + -bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proːsˈtɪ.bʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [prosˈtiː.bu.lum]

Noun

prōstibulum n (genitive prōstibulī); second declension

1. prostitute, whore
2. brothel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	prōstibulum	prōstibula
genitive	prōstibulī	prōstibulōrum
dative	prōstibulō	prōstibulīs
accusative	prōstibulum	prōstibula
ablative	prōstibulō	prōstibulīs
vocative	prōstibulum	prōstibula

Synonyms

• (brothel): lupānar

Descendants

• → Catalan: prostíbul
• → English: prostibule
• → Italian: postribolo
• → Portuguese: prostíbulo
• → Spanish: prostíbulo

References

• “prostibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prostibulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “prostibulum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 865/2