receptaculum.
receptacle; place of refuge, shelter;
Meaning & usage
A place to keep things in; reservoir, receptacle, repository, container.
A place of refuge, lurking-place, shelter, retreat.
Where this word comes from
From receptō (“to recover, harbor”, stem receptā-) + -culum (suffix creating nouns describing the tool or agent for effecting an action), frequentative of recipiō (“to receive; to reserve”) (past participle receptus (“recovered”)), from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“to hold”).
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