Latin

Alternative forms

• claustellum

Noun

clostellum n ‎(genitive clostellī); second declension

1. keyhole
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon CXL

     Itaque ego quoque, ne desidia consuetudinem perderem, dum frater sororis suae automata per clostellum miratur, accessi temptaturus an pateretur iniuriam.

     Therefore, fearing through inaction I might lose an opportunity, I also made advances to the brother who was enjoying the gymnastics of his sister through the keyhole, to see if he would prove amenable to assault.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• clostellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “clostellum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.