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Definition: Penetralia |
PenetraliaNoun1. The innermost parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "penetralia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Etymology: Penetralia \Pen`e*tra"li*a\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from penetralis penetrating, internal. See Penetrate.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Penetralia The private rooms of a house; the secrets of a family. That part of a Roman temple into which the priest alone had access; here were the sacred images, here the responses of the oracles were made, and here the sacred mysteries were performed. The Holy of Holies was the penetralia of the Jewish Temple. (Latin plural of penetralis.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone. |
Intellect | Soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle. |
Interiority | Contents; substance, pith, marrow; backbone; (center); heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap; penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses; cave; (concavity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Penetralia |
| English words defined with "penetralia": Penetrail. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "penetralia": Penetrail. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "penetralia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vend i fshehtë (cache, concealment, hide, hiding place, nook, recess). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светилище (sanctuary, sanctum), тайни, потайности (mysteries). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szentély (apse, bast, chancel, presbytery, sanctuary, sanctum, shrine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enetraliapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | penetrais, santuário (bethel, chancel, fane, presbytery, sanctuary, shrine, sumptuary), ádito (adit), a parte mais recôndita. (various references) | |
Russian | святилище (adyta, adytum, sanctuary, sanctum). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unutrašnjost (heartland, inside, interior, inwardness), tajne. (various references) | |
Swedish | det innersta. (various references) | |
Turkish | içyüzü (color, colour, low down, lowdown), içi (intra-). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "penetralia" (pronounced 'Pen`e*tra"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Aurelia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Linguatulida, lobelia, Lupercalia, magnolia, Mammalia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Physalia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia, stapelia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: perinatal. | |
-2 letters: airplane, alienate, antirape, aperient, elaterin, entailer, interlap, palatine, panetela, parental, parietal, parlante, paternal, pearlite, perineal, petaline, prenatal, tapeline, trapline, treenail, triplane. | |
-3 letters: aliener, apteral, apteria, arenite, atelier, elapine, enteral, eternal, latrine, lineate, painter, pantile, partial, patinae, peatier, penlite, perinea, perlite, pertain, petrale, pileate, plainer, plaiter, planate, plantar, planter, platane, platier, platina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: antipleasure, pleasantries. | |
+3 letters: antipleasures, parenthetical, phalansteries. | |
+4 letters: exasperatingly, interplanetary, predevaluation, preoperational, presentational, proletarianise, proletarianize. | |
+5 letters: departmentalize, interphalangeal, intraperitoneal, intrapreneurial, paragenetically, parenthetically, practicableness, practicalnesses, precancellation, predevaluations, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianized, proletarianizes. | |
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