baculum

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English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum (“stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

baculum (plural baculums or bacula)

  1. (zoology) A bone found in the penis of some placental mammals.
    Synonyms: os penis, penis bone, penile bone
    • 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
      Bacula can be straight rods, s-shaped curves, or even bizarre, flared scoops.
  2. A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen.
    • 1993, M. R. Saxena, Palynology: A Treatise, page 34:
      The sexine usually consists of two main parts, a partially or wholly covering layer — the tectum (roof) and below that the rods or rod-like elements — the bacules (baculum, columella).

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Dutch

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baː.ky.lʏm/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧cu‧lum

Noun

baculum n (plural bacula)

  1. penis bone
    Synonyms: penisbot, penisbeen

Latin

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Etymology

From Proto-Italic *bak-(k)-elo-, of uncertain origin. Probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate substrate. The term is possibly cognate with Proto-Slavic *bokъ, Proto-Celtic *bakkos, Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron), and Proto-Germanic *pagil (English peg). Based on these forms, the Proto-Indo-European root *bak- has been reconstructed. The term could be construed as a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bak-tlom, although De Vaan postulates a pre-form *bak-k(e)los. See also beccus, Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría).

Pronunciation

Noun

baculum n (genitive baculī); second declension

  1. walking stick, cane, staff
  2. sceptre, rod, verge (staff of office)
  3. stick, cudgel
  4. (Medieval Latin) a stick used as a symbol of warranty or in transfers of property
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a support, stay
  6. (Ecclesiastical Latin) crosier
  7. (zoology) a penis bone

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative baculum bacula
genitive baculī baculōrum
dative baculō baculīs
accusative baculum bacula
ablative baculō baculīs
vocative baculum bacula

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References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*pagila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395
  4. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 194
  • “baculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “baculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • baculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “baculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “baculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “baculus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 76
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