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vasculum

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin vasculum (small vessel).

Noun

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vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)

  1. A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.

Latin

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Etymology

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Diminutive from vās (vessel) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension

  1. A small vessel or container.
  2. A small beehive.
  3. (by extension) A seed-capsule or seed-vessel.
  4. (by extension) The calyx of a fruit.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vāsculum vāscula
genitive vāsculī vāsculōrum
dative vāsculō vāsculīs
accusative vāsculum vāscula
ablative vāsculō vāsculīs
vocative vāsculum vāscula

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: vasculum
  • Italian: vascolo

References

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  • vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vasculum 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)
  • vasculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.