grotto

Senso (Inglese)

  1. A small cave.
  2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
  3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
  4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
  5. A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
  6. (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt. The Philippine sense is from the holy cave in Lourdes, France.

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