Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Loculamentum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LOCULAMEN'TUM. Generally, any case, receptable, or locker divided into separate compartments (Vitruv. x. 9. 5. and 6.); thence more specially, and in the plural, an open bookcase covering the sides of a room from top to bottom, and divided into a number of separate compartments, or, as we should say, a set of book shelves (Senec. Tranquill. 9.); also, a set of nests in a dove-cote or pigeon-house (Columell. viii. 8. 3.); and a hive for bees. Id. ix. 12. 2.