angulus

See also: Angulus

English

Etymology

Latin angulus (“angle”)

Noun

angulus (plural anguli)

1. (anatomy) An angle or corner, such as the angular portion of the stomach between the lesser curvature and the pylorus.

Synonyms

• gastric angle

Translations

angle, corner

• Japanese: 胃角部 (ikakubu) (angular portion of the stomach between the lesser curvature and the pylorus)
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References

• “angulus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “angulus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• unguals

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos (“joint?”). Cognates include Sanskrit अङ्गुरि (aṅgúri, “finger, toe”), Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked, curved”), Old High German enchil (“ankle, joint”), Icelandic ekkja and Old Church Slavonic ѫгълъ (ǫgŭlŭ, “angle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡu.lus/, [ˈäŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡu.lus/, [ˈäŋɡulus]

Noun

angulus m (genitive angulī); second declension

1. corner
2. angle

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	angulus	angulī
Genitive	angulī	angulōrum
Dative	angulō	angulīs
Accusative	angulum	angulōs
Ablative	angulō	angulīs
Vocative	angule	angulī

Derived terms

• angulāris
  • angulāriter
• angulātim
• angulātus
• angulōsus
• multangulus, multiangulus

• quadrangulus, quadriangulus
• quinquangulus
• septangulus
• sexangulus
• triangulis
• triangulus

Descendants

• Asturian: ángulu
• Catalan: angle
• English: angle
• French: angle
• Friulian: angul
• Galician: ángulo
• Esperanto: angulo
• Italian: angolo

• Occitan: angle
• Portuguese: ângulo
• Romanian: unghi
• Romansch: angul
• Sardinian: àngulu, àngolo, ungrone
• Sicilian: àngulu, agnuni
• Spanish: ángulo
• Welsh: ongl

References

• “angulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “angulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• angulus 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)
• “angulus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly