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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin articulus. Doublet of article.
Noun
articulus (plural articuli)
- (zoology) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea.
- (zoology) A joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.
Translations
a joint of the cirri of a crinoid
a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Diminutive from artus (“joint; limbs”) + -culus. In the grammatical sense, it is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).
Pronunciation
Noun
articulus m (genitive articulī); second declension
- a point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.
- a limb, member, finger
- (grammar) a short clause; a single word; pronoun, pronominal adjective or article
- (figuratively) a member, part, division, point, article
- (figuratively) a point in time, moment; division of time, space
- (mathematics) a positive decimal integer consisting of a non-zero digit multiplied by a positive integral power of ten.
- 1544, w:Orontius Finaeus, Arithmetica Practica, liber I, cap. 1
Articulus vero dicitur numerus, qui ex decem unitatibus, vel binariis, aut ternariis, aliisve decuplatis consurgit numeris: cuiusmodi sunt decem, viginti, triginta, quadraginta, quinquaginta, centum, mille, et similes numeri in naturali serie articulatim distributi.- A number is called an article, on the other hand, when it is arisen from a single ten, or a double ten, or a triple ten, or other ten-fold numbers: of which are ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, and similar numbers distributed point by point in natural series.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- articulus 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)
- articulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) just at the critical moment: in ipso discrimine (articulo) temporis