vocabulum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.

Latin voc(ā)

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Latin -bulum

Latin vocābulum

From voc(ā) (“to call; to summon”) + -bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈkaː.bʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈkaː.bu.lum]

Noun

vocābulum n (genitive vocābulī); second declension

1. word
2. designation, name, term
3. expression, vocable

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vocābulum	vocābula
genitive	vocābulī	vocābulōrum
dative	vocābulō	vocābulīs
accusative	vocābulum	vocābula
ablative	vocābulō	vocābulīs
vocative	vocābulum	vocābula

Derived terms

• vocābulārium
• prōvocābulum

Descendants

• Catalan: vocable
• English: vocable
• French: vocable
• Galician: vocábulo
• German: Vokabel
• Italian: vocabolo
• Portuguese: vocábulo
• Romanian: vocabulă
• Spanish: vocablo

References

• “vocabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vocabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vocabulum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vocabulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • we have no expression for that: huic rei deest apud nos vocabulum
    
  • to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
    
  • the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • the word has a narrow meaning: vocabulum angustius valet
    
  • this word is neuter: hoc vocabulum generis neutri (not neutrius) est)
    
  • the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium