英语词汇conclave的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	conclave
词源	conclave. This word, now applied to any secret or confiden- tial meeting, once meant only the assembly of cardinals that meets to elect the pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Con- clave itself comes from the Latin conclave (con, with, and clave, key), “a room or place with key” and was initially used to de- scribe the small cells or apartments of the Vatican given to each member of the College of Cardinals at the assembly, which was established by Pope Gregory X in 1274.
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