labyrinthus

• labyrinthos, labyrintus, labirinthus, labirintus, laberinthus, laberintus, laberentus, laborinthus, laborintus

Borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰβῠ́ρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “maze”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la.byˈrin.tʰus/, [ɫ̪äbʏˈrɪn̪t̪ʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la.biˈrin.tus/, [läbiˈrin̪t̪us]

labyrinthus m (genitive labyrinthī); second declension

1. a building with many winding passages, a labyrinth; especially that built by Daedalus, near Knossos, Crete
   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 5.44.7:

     Quod evenit in labyrintho properantibus: ipsa illos velocitas implicat.

2. (figurative) a maze, tangle, bewildering intricacy

Second-declension noun.

• labyrinthēus (adjective)
• labyrinthicus (adjective)

• “labyrinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “labyrinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• labyrinthus 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)
• labyrinthus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “labyrinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “labyrinthus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin