Latin

Noun

zōthēca f ‎(genitive zōthēcae); first declension

1. a private room, chamber, or closet
2. a recess, niche

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• zōthēcula

References

• zotheca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ZOTHECA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “zotheca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• zotheca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers