excubitorium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A gallery in a church, used for all-night vigils.

Word forms

excubitorium excubitoria

Etymology

From Latin excubitorium, from ex (“out”) + cubare, cubitum (“to lie”).

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