pessulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pessulus (“bolt (of a door)”).

Noun

pessulus (plural pessuli)

1. (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “pessulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Alternative forms

• pessula

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάσσαλος (pássalos), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (whence pangō). See also repāgulum.

Noun

pessulus m (genitive pessulī); second declension

1. a bolt (of a door)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pessulus	pessulī
Genitive	pessulī	pessulōrum
Dative	pessulō	pessulīs
Accusative	pessulum	pessulōs
Ablative	pessulō	pessulīs
Vocative	pessule	pessulī

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *pestulus, *pestellus
  • Asturian: piesllu, priesllu
  • Catalan: pestell
  • Galician: pecho
  • Portuguese: pestilo
  • Spanish: pestillo

References

• “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pessulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pessulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pessulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin