vehiculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• vehiclum

Etymology

From vehō (“I bear, carry, convey; ride”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈhi.ku.lum/, [u̯eˈ(ɦ)ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈi.ku.lum/, [veˈiːkulum]

Noun

vehiculum n (genitive vehiculī); second declension

1. A means of transport; vehicle, conveyance, carriage; wagon, cart; ship.

   Synonyms: carpentum, currus, vectābulum, vectāculum

2. An agricultural implement for cutting down grain; reaping-machine.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vehiculum	vehicula
Genitive	vehiculī	vehiculōrum
Dative	vehiculō	vehiculīs
Accusative	vehiculum	vehicula
Ablative	vehiculō	vehiculīs
Vocative	vehiculum	vehicula

Related terms

• vectitātus
• vectiō
• vector
• vectrix
• vectus
• vectābilis
• vectābulum
• vectāculum
• vectārius
• vectātiō
• vectīgal
• vectīgālis
• vectīgāliārius
• vectō
• vectōrius
• vectūra
• vectūrārius
• vehes
• vehiculāris
• vehiculārius
• vehātiō
• vehō

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: vehicle
• → English: vehicle
• → French: véhicule
• → Irish: feithicil
• → Italian: veicolo
• → Portuguese: veículo
• → Romanian: vehicul
• Sardinian: ìgulu
• → Spanish: vehículo

Further reading

• “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vehiculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vehiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1650/3.
• vehiculum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3383
• “vehiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers