prostibulum

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proːsˈti.bu.lum/, [proːs̠ˈt̪ɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /prosˈti.bu.lum/, [prosˈt̪iːbulum]

prōstibulum n (genitive prōstibulī); second declension

1. prostitute, whore
2. brothel

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (brothel): lupānar

• English: prostibule
• Italian: postribolo
• Portuguese: prostíbulo
• Spanish: prostíbulo

• “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