vestibulum

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vestibulum (“vestibule”).

Noun

vestibulum (plural vestibula)

1. (zoology) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
2. (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear.

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Latin

Etymology

From vesti(ō) (“to dress”) +‎ -bulum (equivalent to English vest + -ible), probably from the sense of "a place to dress."

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯esˈti.bu.lum/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈt̪ɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vesˈti.bu.lum/, [vesˈt̪iːbulum]

Noun

vestibulum n (genitive vestibulī); second declension

1. vestibule, forecourt, an enclosed area at the front of a house.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vestibulum	vestibula
Genitive	vestibulī	vestibulōrum
Dative	vestibulō	vestibulīs
Accusative	vestibulum	vestibula
Ablative	vestibulō	vestibulīs
Vocative	vestibulum	vestibula

Descendants

• Catalan: vestíbul
• English: vestibule
• French: vestibule
  • German: Vestibül
• Galician: vestíbulo
• Italian: vestibolo
• Piedmontese: vestìbul
• Russian: вестибюль (vestibjulʹ)
• Slovak: vestibul
• Spanish: vestíbulo

See also

• ātrium

References

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