carceral

Meaning

Adjective

Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.

Origin

From Late Latin carcerālis ("carceral"), from Latin carcer ("jail, prison") (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ("to bend, turn, in the sense of an enclosure")) + -ālis.

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