"ergastulum" meaning in Latin

See ergastulum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Probably from Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”), from ἐργαστής (ergastḗs, “worker, employee”), from ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “I work, do labor”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*werǵ-}}, {{bor|la|grc|ἐργαστήριον||workshop}} Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”) Head templates: {{la-noun|ergastulum<2>}} ergastulum n (genitive ergastulī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|ergastulum<2>}} Forms: ergastulī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], ergastulum [nominative, singular], ergastula [nominative, plural], ergastulī [genitive, singular], ergastulōrum [genitive, plural], ergastulō [dative, singular], ergastulīs [dative, plural], ergastulum [accusative, singular], ergastula [accusative, plural], ergastulō [ablative, singular], ergastulīs [ablative, plural], ergastulum [singular, vocative], ergastula [plural, vocative]
  1. penitentiary, workhouse (or its residents) Tags: declension-2, neuter
    Sense id: en-ergastulum-la-noun-ZbRF3AQd Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6
  2. slave prison Tags: declension-2, neuter
    Sense id: en-ergastulum-la-noun-nKFZXXZ4

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "ergastolo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "ergástulo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "ergàstulu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "ergástulo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*werǵ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἐργαστήριον",
        "4": "",
        "5": "workshop"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”), from ἐργαστής (ergastḗs, “worker, employee”), from ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “I work, do labor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ergastulī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ergastulum<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "ergastulum n (genitive ergastulī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ergastulum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              59,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:",
          "text": "Thence arose unpleasant points of analogy with the ancient ergastulum, where the slaves of an estate were all crammed together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "penitentiary, workhouse (or its residents)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ergastulum-la-noun-ZbRF3AQd",
      "links": [
        [
          "penitentiary",
          "penitentiary"
        ],
        [
          "workhouse",
          "workhouse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "slave prison"
      ],
      "id": "en-ergastulum-la-noun-nKFZXXZ4",
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ergastulum"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
    "Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werǵ-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "ergastolo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "ergástulo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "ergàstulu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "ergástulo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*werǵ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἐργαστήριον",
        "4": "",
        "5": "workshop"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Ancient Greek ἐργαστήριον (ergastḗrion, “workshop”), from ἐργαστής (ergastḗs, “worker, employee”), from ἐργάζομαι (ergázomai, “I work, do labor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ergastulī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastulum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ergastula",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ergastulum<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "ergastulum n (genitive ergastulī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ergastulum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              59,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:",
          "text": "Thence arose unpleasant points of analogy with the ancient ergastulum, where the slaves of an estate were all crammed together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "penitentiary, workhouse (or its residents)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penitentiary",
          "penitentiary"
        ],
        [
          "workhouse",
          "workhouse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "slave prison"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ergastulum"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ergastulum meaning in Latin (3.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.