speculum
English
Etymology
From Latin speculum (“mirror”), from specere (“to see; to look at”) + -ulum (“forming tools of performing a verb”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
speculum (plural speculums or specula)
- (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
- A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
- (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
- A lookout place.
Translations
medical instrument
patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds
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Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
- speclum (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
Etymology
From speciō + -culum. Confer with spectrum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ku.lum/, [ˈs̠pɛkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ku.lum/, [ˈspɛːkulum]
Noun
speculum n (genitive speculī); second declension
- a looking-glass, mirror
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | speculum | specula |
Genitive | speculī | speculōrum |
Dative | speculō | speculīs |
Accusative | speculum | specula |
Ablative | speculō | speculīs |
Vocative | speculum | specula |
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: espeyu
- Catalan: espill, espècul
- Danish: spejl n
- Dutch: spiegel
- English: speculum
- Esperanto: spegulo
- Galician: espello
- German: Spiegel
- Friulian: spieli
- Icelandic: spegill
- Irish: spéacla
- Italian: specchio, specolo
- Limburgish: spegel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: spegel
- Norwegian Bokmål: speil n
- Old Norse: spegill
- Portuguese: espelho, espéculo
- Romanian: specul
- Romansch: spievel, spieghel, spejel
- Sardinian: ipíciu, ispégiu, ispígiu, isprecu, ispregu, ispricu, sprigu
- Sicilian: specchiu
- Spanish: espejo, espéculo
- Swedish: spegel c
- Venetian: specio
References
- “speculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speculum 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)
- speculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “speculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “speculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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