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by 1718627440 330 days ago
> "Golgotha", the latin word

Isn't it Hebrew? (for example see John 19,17)

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From what I have to hand ..

It appeared in the Latin Vulgate (an early predominately Latin version of the Bible), the Oxford English Dictionary has it as an Aramaic form of the Hebrew "gulgōleþ" (copied from the dictionary) or skull like hill.