logeum

• logeion, logium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λογεῖον (logeîon, “stage, platform”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈɡeː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈd͡ʒɛː.um]

logēum n (genitive logēī); second declension

1. (theater) the part of the stage where Greek actors spoke; called pulpitum by Romans
   • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 5.8.2:

     Ita tribus centris hac descriptione ampliorem habent orchestram Graeci et scaenam recessiorem minoreque latitudine pulpitum, quod logeion appellant, ideo quod ⟨apud⟩ eos tragici et comici actores in scaena peragunt, reliqui autem artifices suas per orchestram praestant actiones; […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (dubious) archives

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Italian: leggio

• “logeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “logeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “logeum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• logeion, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011