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a space so private even the gods need to knock first.
means A sacred or private place, especially a small room where a person retreats to be undisturbed.
from Straight from Latin sanctum, meaning 'a holy place,' the neuter form of sanctus, 'sacred' or 'consecrated' — the same root behind 'saint' and 'sanctify.' Sanctus itself comes from sancire, 'to make holy, to ratify by religious ceremony.' The phrase sanctum sanctorum, 'holy of holies,' named the innermost chamber of the temple in Jerusalem, the one place reserved for the divine — which is exactly how the word drifted into describing anyone's most private retreat.
- latin root
- from sanctus, meaning holy or set apart
- inner sanctum
- originally the temple's most restricted sacred chamber
- legal echo
- sanctuary once shielded fugitives from arrest
- plural form
- becomes sancta or the punchier sanctorum