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- Latin · derived fromcrucibulum“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”
- English todaycrucible
From Latin crucibulum (“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”), apparently a derivative of crux (“cross”), perhaps by analogy to thūribulum (“censer”) and suffix -bulum, or from crucio (“to torment”).
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