paxillus

See also: Paxillus

English

Etymology

From Latin paxillus (“peg”).

Noun

paxillus (plural paxilli)

1. (zoology) A kind of pillar-like spine with a flattened summit covered with minute spinules or granules, covering the surface of certain starfishes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paxillus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive noun of pālus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːkˈsil.lus/, [päːkˈs̠ɪlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pakˈsil.lus/, [päkˈsilːus]

Noun

pāxillus m (genitive pāxillī); second declension

1. peg, pin, small stake

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāxillus	pāxillī
Genitive	pāxillī	pāxillōrum
Dative	pāxillō	pāxillīs
Accusative	pāxillum	pāxillōs
Ablative	pāxillō	pāxillīs
Vocative	pāxille	pāxillī

Descendants

• Old Catalan: pleixell
• → Italian: pasillo
• Bourguignon: paisseâ

References

• “paxillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paxillus 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)
• paxillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.