gurgustium

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

gurgustĭum, ii, n. [kindred with gurgulio, perh. with reference to its straitness],

a small , mean dwelling , a hovel , hut : nescio quo e gurgustio te prodire, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: in gurgustio habitare, id. N. D. 1, 9, 22: modicum, Suet. Gramm. 11; Ambros. de Bono Mort. 1, 5 al.

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