gubernaculum

English

gubernaculum (plural gubernacula)

(anatomy) Either of a pair of folds of peritoneum that attach to the caudal end of the gonads (testes in males and ovaries in females).

From gubernō (“I steer”) and -culum.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡu.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [ɡʊbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡu.berˈna.ku.lum/, [ɡuberˈnäːkulum]

gubernāculum n (genitive gubernāculī); second declension

→ English: gubernaculum
Old French: governail
- → Middle English: governaile
  - English: governail
- French: gouvernail
Galician: gobernallo

“gubernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“gubernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
gubernaculum 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)
gubernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hold the reins of government: ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedere
- to hold the reins of government: gubernacula rei publicae tractare
- to steer: gubernaculum tractare
“gubernaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“gubernaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.