diverticulum

English

Etymology

From Latin dīverticulum, alternative form of dēverticulum (“byroad; deviation”), from dēvertō (“turn away, turn aside”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɑɪ.vɜː.ˈtɪ.kjə.ləm/

Noun

diverticulum (plural diverticulums or diverticula)

1. (anatomy) A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
   • 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 16:

     Diverticula are small, light-bulb-shaped pouches in the bowel wall, resulting from the tissue in the gut bulging outwards under pressure.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Meckel's diverticulum
• diverticular
• diverticulectomy
• diverticulitis
• diverticulogram
• diverticulopexy
• diverticulosis
• Zenker's diverticulum

Translations

small growth off an organ

• Catalan: diverticle m
• Finnish: divertikkeli, pullistuma (fi), umpipussi
• German: Divertikel (de) n
• Greek: εκκόλπωμα (el) n (ekkólpoma)
• Italian: diverticolo (it) m
• Latin: dīverticulum n
• Spanish: divertículo (es) m
• Swedish: divertikel c

Latin

Alternative forms

• dēverticulum
• dēvorticulum

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diː.u̯erˈti.ku.lum/, [d̪iːu̯ɛrˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.verˈti.ku.lum/, [d̪iverˈt̪iːkulum]

Noun

dīverticulum n (genitive dīverticulī); second declension

1. Alternative form of dēverticulum ("byroad").
2. (anatomy, New Latin, exclusively as diverticulum) A small growth off an organ of a body; diverticulum.
   • 1829, University of Groningen, Annales Academiae groninganae, Commentatio de diverticulus intestinorum, page 69:

     Baillie exemplum praebuit diverticuli coniuncti cum vitiis a niſu formativo abnormi productis: illuc ſc. invenit in foetu, cui aderat omnium thoracis et abdominis viscerum ſitus inverſus, una cum partitione lienis in quinque lobos, uti in Cetaceis ſolet.

     Baillie provided an example of a diverticulum connected with defects extended by an abnormal formative impulse. To that point naturally it is found in a foetus, to whom an inverted position of all the internal organs of the abdomen and thorax is present, together with a separation of the spleen into five lobes, as is usual in cetaceans.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dīverticulum	dīverticula
Genitive	dīverticulī	dīverticulōrum
Dative	dīverticulō	dīverticulīs
Accusative	dīverticulum	dīverticula
Ablative	dīverticulō	dīverticulīs
Vocative	dīverticulum	dīverticula

References

• diverticulum 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)