Diminutive of the Latin locus, place: used to refer to the small enclosed space of a Christian tomb, usally an old one, that was held by collective memory to be that of a holy person, if not actually a martyr.
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A small chamber, carved into the wall of a tomb, where the body was placed.
(= locule): an enclosed compartment within an organ, e.g. an ovary, an anther. pl. loculi.
a place for the deposit of valuables, especially a chamber in the podium of a temple, accessible from the exterior; the Temple of Castor and Pollux was ringed with loculi.
A rectangular burial niche or recess (sometimes 6 ft. deep), carved into the walls of a tomb chamber for individual corpses, sometimes several. The plural form is pronounced "loculi" (in Hebrew="kochim").
niche in a tomb or catacomb in which a sarcophagus was placed.
(pl. loculi): the shelf-like excavation in a catacomb used for the burial of a single body