Conclave

English-Latin

conclave. n.

1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
   • conclave (-is, neut.)
2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope.
   • conclave (-is, neut.)

Latin-English

conclāv|e, -is. (konˈkla.ve) neut.

1. A lockable room.

[cum + clavis.]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1:

Romam cum venissem a. d. XIII. Kal. Octobres, absolutum offendi in aedibus tuis tectum, quod supra conclavia non placuerat tibi esse multorum fastigiorum: id nunc honeste vergit in tectum inferioris porticus.

When I got to Rome on September 19, I found that the roof of your house—above the rooms, where you didn't want there to be so many gables—had been finished; it now slopes handsomely down to the roof of the lower colonnade.