English → Latin
“mirror-room” in Latin
conclāveroom, chamber; enclosed space that can be locked; dining hallvitrumglass; dyer's woad, a plant used for dying blue (Isatis tinctoria); woad, a blue dye used by the Britons made from that
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mirror-room
conclave, cujus parietes speculis or (according to the custom of the ancients) phengite lapide distincti sunt (Vid: Suet., Dom., 14): conclave, in quo specula ab omni parte posita sunt (Vid: Sen., N.Q., 1, 16, 3). ☞ Not cubiculum speculatum, which is found only in a corrupt passage of “Vita Horatii,” Suet., t. 3, p. 51, ed. Wolf: ☞ vitreae camerae were rooms lined with thick plates of colored glass in panels (vitreae quadraturae; Dictionary of Antiquities, VITRUM).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mirror-room?
- The usual Latin words for “mirror-room” are conclāve, vitrum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.