vasculum

English

Etymology

Latin vasculum (“small vessel”).

Noun

vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)

1. A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.
   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 108:

     ‘Here,’ Jonas said, and picked up a brass vasculum. Unscrewing the lid he emptied it of herbs […] .

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from vās (“vessel”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aːs.ku.lum/, [ˈu̯äːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvas.ku.lum/, [ˈväskulum]

Noun

vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension

1. A small vessel or container.
2. A small beehive.
3. (by extension) A seed-capsule or seed-vessel.
4. (by extension) The calyx of a fruit.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vāsculum	vāscula
Genitive	vāsculī	vāsculōrum
Dative	vāsculō	vāsculīs
Accusative	vāsculum	vāscula
Ablative	vāsculō	vāsculīs
Vocative	vāsculum	vāscula

Derived terms

• vāsculārius
• vāscellum
• vāsculāris

Related terms

• vās
• vāsārium
• vāsātus

Descendants

• → English: vasculum
• → Italian: vascolo

References

• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vasculum 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)
• vasculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.