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English
Noun
adminiculum
- (medicine) That which gives support to a part.
- (medicine) The expansion of fibers extending from the superior pubic ligament to the posterior surface of the linea alba.
References
- American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1919)
- A Practical Medical Dictionary (Stedman, 1922)
Latin
Etymology
From ad- (“at”) + manus (“hand”) + -culum (“tool”).
Pronunciation
Noun
adminiculum n (genitive adminiculī); second declension
- a prop, stay, support
Iam vērō vītēs sīc clāviculīs adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt atque ita sē ērigunt ut animantēs.- The vines we see take hold on props with their tendrils, as if with hands, and raise themselves as if they were animated.
- support, help, aid, assistance
- assistant, auxiliary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “adminiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adminiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "adminiculum", 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)
- adminiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.