osculum
English
Etymology
From Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”).
Noun
osculum (plural oscula)
- (chiefly zoology) A small opening or orifice. [from 18th c.]
- (zoology, obsolete) One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.
- (zoology) The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 29:
- Waste water was expelled through a single osculum at about 8.5 cm per second – more than eight thousand times as fast as it circulated in the chambers and 85 times as fast as it entered the sponge in the first place.
Translations
main opening in a sponge
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
- ausculum n (genitive ausculī); second declension
Etymology
From ōs (“mouth”) + -culum, neuter form of -culus (suffix forming a diminutive).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈoːs.ku.lum/, [ˈoːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈos.ku.lum/, [ˈɔskulum]
Noun
ōsculum n (genitive ōsculī); second declension
- a kissTemplate:jump
- a little mouth
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ōsculum | ōscula |
Genitive | ōsculī | ōsculōrum |
Dative | ōsculō | ōsculīs |
Accusative | ōsculum | ōscula |
Ablative | ōsculō | ōsculīs |
Vocative | ōsculum | ōscula |
Synonyms
- Template:jump bāsium n, suāvium n
Descendants
See also
References
- “osculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “osculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- osculum 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)
- osculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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