vestibulum
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vestibulum (“vestibule”).
Noun
vestibulum (plural vestibula)
- (zoology) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
- (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear.
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
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
See also
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
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