vehiculum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From vehō (“I bear, carry”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯eˈhi.ku.lum/, [u̯eˈ(ɦ)ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈi.ku.lum/, [veˈiːkulum]
Noun
vehiculum n (genitive vehiculī); second declension
- A means of transport; vehicle, conveyance, carriage; wagon, cart; ship.
- An agricultural implement for cutting down grain; reaping-machine.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vehiculum | vehicula |
Genitive | vehiculī | vehiculōrum |
Dative | vehiculō | vehiculīs |
Accusative | vehiculum | vehicula |
Ablative | vehiculō | vehiculīs |
Vocative | vehiculum | vehicula |
Synonyms
- (cart): carpentum, currus
- (vehicle, carriage): vectābulum, vectāculum
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of vehiculum in other languages
References
- “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vehiculum 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)
- vehiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “vehiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers