pastophorium

Latin pastophorium

pastophorium (plural pastophoria)

1. A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.

• amphitropous

pastophorium n (genitive pastophoriī or pastophorī); second declension

1. A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “pastophorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pastophorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pastophorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.