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Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/, /ɡɒlˈɡɒθə/
  • Hyphenation: Gol‧go‧tha

Proper noun edit

Golgotha

  1. (biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
    Synonym: Calvary
  2. (Oxbridge slang, obsolete) The rooms of the heads of the colleges. [18th–19th c.]
    • 1726, Nicholas Amhurst, Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (No. XI), page 59:
      But Printing is not the only, nor the principal uſe, for which theſe ſtupendous ſtone-walls were erected; for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs, which occur within the precincts of their juriſdiction.

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Noun edit

Golgotha (plural Golgothas)

  1. A charnel house.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A hat.
    • 1879, Thomas Southwell, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, page 271:
      [] to the hat-rail; when Wigg went to put it on, it of course resisted, and giving it a spatch, off came the brim. In his fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it []
    • 1887, W. T. Eady, I.D.B. Or, The Adventures of Solomon Davis on the Diamond Fields and Elsewhere, page 165:
      [] and finally raised his hat and put it on again, cocked back on one side of his head in exact imitation of the manner in which the tall man carried his golgotha.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin Golgotha, from Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ), from Aramaic גּלגּלת.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɣɔl.ɣoːˌtaː/
  • Hyphenation: Gol‧go‧tha

Proper noun edit

Golgotha f

  1. Golgotha
    Synonym: Bekkeneelberg

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Golgotha f sg (genitive Golgothae); first declension

  1. Golgotha

Declension edit

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Golgotha
Genitive Golgothae
Dative Golgothae
Accusative Golgotham
Ablative Golgothā
Vocative Golgotha